Commie Curmudgeon

Contact

Website
http://commiecurmudgeon.wordpress.com
Website 2
http://roughinhere.wordpress.com

Networking and politics

Political label
libertarian socialist, libertarian Marxist, internationalist, council communist
Region
North America
Country and town
U.S.A., New York City
Occupation
precarious proofreader, rarely paid writer/social commenter/pop music critic
Political group membership
AMP Publishing (Infoshop.org), Mayday Books Collective
What do your politics mean to you?

My personal politics influence the way I look at everything,

Favourite thinkers
Karl Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, Anton Pannekoek, Sylvia Pankhurst, Andre Gorz, Lewis Mumford, Ivan Illich, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Orwell, Kamunist Kranti
Favourite political books
The German Ideology by Marx and Engels, Grundrisse by Karl Marx, The Junius Pamphlet by Rosa Luxemburg, Workers Councils by Anton Pannekoek, Ecology as Politics by Andre Gorz, Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich
Comrades re-united - political groups you were a member of
Direct Action Network Labor Solidarity Working Group, Industrial Workers of the World, InterGalactic Anarchist Convention Organizing Collective, Common Wheel Collective, New School for Pluralistic Anti-Capitalist Education
Comrades re-united - further information

For various reasons, I have decided not to list all of them. Regarding the ones I listed...

The Common Wheel Collective (two of us) wrote the semi-known Collective Book on Collective Process

I don't really do anything for AMP/Infoshop, but it has plans for a magazine that I may be working on sometime.

I wasn't a member of Mayday Books for a while and then rejoined at a time when some people might think it no longer exists. But I have reasons to believe it will come back in an interesting way...

Personal

About me

(Wrote a bunch of stuff here at first but decided...better to put that in my intro or something.)

Favourite books
Lipstick Traces by Greil Marcus, The Trial by Franz Kafka, Merry Men by Carolyn Chute, Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, Vermilion Sands by J.G. Ballard, Ocean of Sound by David Toop, The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter, The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Favourite films
I like lots of old Bollywood and Tamil music-and-dance movies made in the 1950s and '60s. Even though the only language I know is English... I'll watch anythnig with Padmini in it, with or without subtitles.
Age
40 - 49
Gender
Male
Music
M.I.A., Natacha Atlas, DJ /Rupture, Transglobal Underground, Dillinger, Dead Can Dance, Brian Eno
Dislikes
Too many to list right now.

History

Member for
51 weeks 4 days

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