Papers and Tigers: Was Lenin Really an Anarchist?
Malcolm Harris' piece in a debate on the relevance of Lenin to current revolutionary anti-capitalist practice.
[i]“During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander.
Reflections on The Call - Léon de Mattis
The need for communism traverses the entirety of the society of capital. The merit of Call lies in taking note of this, and of trying to design strategies which live up to this realization.1
- 1. ‘Call’ was published by The Invisible Committee in 2004, references in the text are given to the English translation available here: http://www.
The Great Game of Civil War
English translation of an ironic text sympathetic to the views of the Imaginary Party.
The Great Game of Civil War
Rule 1. Until the new order, all your rights are suspended. Naturally, it is good that you conserve the illusion that you still have them. Also, we will only violate them one by one, and case by case.
This is not a program
Translation of a text appearing in Tiqqun 2 in 2001. Available in the pdf below.
Raw Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl
Translation of a text appearing in Tiqqun 1 in 1999. Attached as pdf.
The Theory of Bloom
Translation of a text appearing in Tiqqun 1 in 1999. Attached as pdf.
Brief excerpts. . .
Translations of the back jackets of the two newest Tiqqun reissues, as well as of The Coming Insurrection.
Everything has failed, Long live communism!
The Conquerors had Conquered Without Trouble. . .
A brief, untitled, but farsighted text from Tiqqun 2, published in 2001.
The conquerors had conquered without trouble: they had taken a city that had gotten rid of its gods.
No one recalls today, among the insurgents of times past, what exactly happened at the start. In place of a response, certain had a legend; but most only answered that “everyone is a start”.
What is Metaphysical Criticism?
Translation of a text appearing in Tiqqun 1 in 1999.
What is Metaphysical Criticism?
“There is no longer any reality, only its caricature”
-Gottfried Benn
“We talked of the universe, its creation and also its future destruction.”
-Baudelaire
Invisible Politics - An Introduction to Contemporary Communisation - John Cunningham
In the wake of the organised left and the demise of working class self-identity, communisation offers a paradoxical means of superseding capitalism in the here and now whilst abandoning orthodox theories of revolution. John Cunningham reports from the picket line of the ‘human strike'.
As we apprehend it, the process of instituting communism can only take the form of a collection of acts of communisation, of making common such-and-such space, such-and-such-machine, such-and-such-knowledge. - The Invisible Committee, Call, 2004
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