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Networking and politics

Political label: Anarcho-cynicalist
Region: North America
Country and town: Berkeley, CA, US
Employment sector: claimants and unpaid
Union membership: Not anymore.
Occupation: Unemployed shitworker.
Political group membership: Nope.
Favourite thinkers: Fredy Perlman, Wolfi Lansdtreicher, Max Stirner, Guy Debord, Raoul Vaneigem, Alfredo Bonanno.
Favourite political books: Letters of Insurgents, Revolution of Everyday Life, Society of the Spectacle, The Ego and Its Own.

Custom title: No hope for the kids.
Favourite books: Anything by Paul Auster, China Mieville, Ken Macleod, Philip K. Dick, H.P. Lovecraft, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Harlan Ellison, Grant Morrison, Alan Moore.
Favourite films: I'm more of a TV-show-on-DVD kind of guy:, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, Twin Peaks, [adult swim]
Music: hardcore, punk, black metal
Dislikes: the right, the left, reformists, workerists, unions, nationalists, organizational fetishists

On the poverty of Berkeley life and the marginal stratum of American society in general - Chris Shutes, 1983
A situationist-influenced text from 1983, containing critiques of Berkeley radicalism, the marginal worker, 'natural' commodities (e.g. crafts, food, medicine), the car, jogging, bureaucratic reform, Reaganism, the Black Panthers, criminality, culture/aesthetics, feminism, therapy, Robert Crumb, global class struggle in the 1970s and 80s and South Africa in particular - plus more.

1968

Up Against The Wall Motherfucker! - Interview with Ben Morea
Morea talks of the 1960s Black Mask and Up Against The Wall Motherfucker! groups and their activities - such as busting into the Pentagon during an anti-war protest, and "assassinating" a famous poet. He also discusses friendships with various characters, including the late Valerie Solanas - who shot Andy Warhol and wrote the SCUM Manifesto.