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shannonbrincat…

2 years 3 months ago

Submitted by shannonbrincat… on August 14, 2023

I am looking for: https://libcom.org/forums/thought/unity-identity-of-subject-and-object-in-marx

amie.swiggs

2 years 1 month ago

Submitted by amie.swiggs on October 24, 2023

i am looking for
http://libcom.org/forums/theory/adorno-on-pop-music-29082008

Submitted by westartfromhere on October 24, 2023

amie.swiggs wrote: i am looking for
http://libcom.org/forums/theory/adorno-on-pop-music-29082008

That discussion appears to have been removed. An administrator may have an answer as to why?

Submitted by Steven. on October 25, 2023

westartfromhere wrote:

amie.swiggs wrote: i am looking for
http://libcom.org/forums/theory/adorno-on-pop-music-29082008

That discussion appears to have been removed. An administrator may have an answer as to why?

At various points over the years we have unpublished old forum discussions, because of retrospective breaches of our comment guidelines.
Have now re-published that one.

Liberal-toe-sucker

1 year 10 months ago

Submitted by Liberal-toe-sucker on January 14, 2024

I want to access: https://libcom.org/forums/news/michael-schmidt-author-black-flame-exposed-white-nationalist-infiltrator-26092015

Submitted by Steven. on January 15, 2024

Liberal-toe-sucker wrote: I want to access: https://libcom.org/forums/news/michael-schmidt-author-black-flame-exposed-white-nationalist-infiltrator-26092015

You should be able to access this now

kiwimedia

1 year 9 months ago

Submitted by kiwimedia on March 7, 2024

Hello. I want to access: https://libcom.org/article/anarchism-south-africa-interview-michael-schmidt-zacf-2007

Submitted by Steven. on March 11, 2024

kiwimedia wrote: Hello. I want to access: https://libcom.org/article/anarchism-south-africa-interview-michael-schmidt-zacf-2007

That article has been taken off-line and we don't intend to put it back online, as it was conducted with a secret white supremacist (Schmidt), and has no factual value which would mitigate against that.

Submitted by westartfromhere on March 21, 2024

Steven. wrote:

kiwimedia wrote: Hello. I want to access: https://libcom.org/article/anarchism-south-africa-interview-michael-schmidt-zacf-2007

That article has been taken off-line and we don't intend to put it back online, as it was conducted with a secret white supremacist (Schmidt), and has no factual value which would mitigate against that.

Obviously, this site should not promote racial supremacists from within the anarchist movement but would it be possible, somehow, to retain the Comments section attached to this interview? It seems counterproductive to censor the offending article whilst also censoring its detractors.

Steven.

1 year 8 months ago

Submitted by Steven. on March 27, 2024

There was no discussion of this article in the comment section after it. There was one comment from a person complaining about Schmidt in general.

Submitted by westartfromhere on March 27, 2024

Steven wrote: There was one comment from a person complaining about Schmidt in general.

Well, at least there was one who saw through the trumped up nazi punk..

erikrh14

1 year 7 months ago

Submitted by erikrh14 on April 14, 2024

Is this one gone forever? "Critical comments on rose-tinted revisionist views of skinheads"

http://libcom.org/history/1960-today-skinhead-culture

Steven.

1 year 7 months ago

Submitted by Steven. on April 15, 2024

That article was nonsense and so it was removed, yes

Submitted by westartfromhere on May 13, 2024

Steven. wrote: That article was nonsense and so it was removed, yes

Fozzie wrote: Which is a pity because I think a critique of the romanticised history of skinhead culture would be cool.

Fozzie

1 year 6 months ago

Submitted by Fozzie on May 13, 2024

I did eventually read that (very short) article - and agreed that it was nonsense!

Submitted by westartfromhere on May 13, 2024

Fozzie wrote: I did eventually read that (very short) article - and agreed that it was nonsense!

You are in a privileged position: being able to read nonsense.

lurdan

1 year 6 months ago

Submitted by lurdan on June 1, 2024

Followed a link on the site to this but it's been fed to the penguin

http://libcom.org/forums/anti-fascism/putting-the-record-straight

Any chance of this "bourgeois motherfucker" seeing it?

Admin: comment lightly edited as we have re-published the discussion.

westartfromhere

1 year 6 months ago

Submitted by westartfromhere on June 2, 2024

In the absence of the above link, our thoughts on anti-fascism are that all states are fascist, in that they bind disparate elements of the capital, including the labour force, within the nation, or conglomerate of nations.

The term anti-fascist is a mystification. The working class is inherently against the mercantile state and its political administration. Fascism or anti-fascism are terms that only aim to disunify the class of labour.

Submitted by Steven. on June 4, 2024

lurdan wrote: Followed a link on the site to this but it's been fed to the penguin

http://libcom.org/forums/anti-fascism/putting-the-record-straight

Any chance of this "bourgeois motherfucker" seeing it?

Admin: comment lightly edited as we have re-published the discussion.

While some of the comments in this discussion are rude, and breach our current posting guidelines, this discussion contains important information from a person debunking misinformation about themselves, so we have re-published it.

lurdan

1 year 6 months ago

Submitted by lurdan on June 5, 2024

cheers!

Shahram

11 months ago

Submitted by Shahram on January 5, 2025

I got to this page (https://libcom.org/discussion/request-content-posting-rights-here) from Content Guidelines to ask for permission to submit content but a red pengu yelling at me Access Denied!
I've already tried different browsers and also made sure I'm logged in to my account.

Fozzie

11 months ago

Submitted by Fozzie on January 6, 2025

Hi Sharam - what happens if you press the "submit content" button at the top of the page?

Submitted by Shahram on January 7, 2025

Fozzie wrote: Hi Sharam - what happens if you press the "submit content" button at the top of the page?

Hi Fozzie: do you mean a 'submit content' on this current page? I don't see one.

Submitted by Shahram on January 7, 2025

Fozzie wrote: Hi Sharam - what happens if you press the "submit content" button at the top of the page?

If you mean the 'submit content' on my account, it goes to next page showing 3 options , I choose Article, but only have Save as: Draft option with Save & Preview buttons.
Basically, I don't have the permission to Publish it. It's been 3 weeks and haven't received any responses to my emails or comments except you.
Trying to follow the Content Guidelines will redirect to the page with red penguin saying No Access.

Fozzie

10 months 4 weeks ago

Submitted by Fozzie on January 8, 2025

Ah OK - I am able to publish your drafts, so perhaps that is a good way forward for now? I just did that for the Loren Goldner piece you submitted. I hope that is OK.

Submitted by Shahram on January 9, 2025

Fozzie wrote: Ah OK - I am able to publish your drafts, so perhaps that is a good way forward for now? I just did that for the Loren Goldner piece you submitted. I hope that is OK.

This is great! Thank you Fozzie.
I'll be uploading another one soon. I don't mind giving you the trouble to do the same (hope you are OK with this), but is there a fix for this so I don't bog you down with these comments?

Fozzie

10 months 4 weeks ago

Submitted by Fozzie on January 9, 2025

Thanks Shahram - yes that is all fine. I believe that someone with more admin powers than I would need to change your permissions. I am sure one of them will be along in due course, but please proceed in the meantime...

adri

10 months 4 weeks ago

Submitted by adri on January 9, 2025

Fozzie deserves a promotion I think; look at all the content he's uploaded! A real Stakhanov that all libcom contributors should try to emulate. Give Fozzie more admin privileges right now!!

Submitted by Shahram on January 10, 2025

Fozzie wrote: Thanks Shahram - yes that is all fine. I believe that someone with more admin powers than I would need to change your permissions. I am sure one of them will be along in due course, but please proceed in the meantime...

Alright, glad to have a plan for now! Thanks!

Submitted by Shahram on January 10, 2025

adri wrote: Fozzie deserves a promotion I think; look at all the content he's uploaded! A real Stakhanov that all libcom contributors should try to emulate. Give Fozzie more admin privileges right now!!

Yes, I second that (though I don't have any voting power)!

adri

10 months 3 weeks ago

Submitted by adri on January 10, 2025

Comrade Fozzie has been working at the Library of Communism for over 21 years; he damn well deserves to edit people's posting permissions!

(I also hope he didn't take offense to me comparing him to Stakhanov—the whole Stalinist labor-competition thing was indeed terrible.)

Fozzie

10 months 3 weeks ago

Submitted by Fozzie on January 12, 2025

Thanks for the nice comments both. Posting content is its own reward :-)

syndicalist

7 months 1 week ago

Submitted by syndicalist on April 25, 2025

Hi comrades, looking for this thread, does it still exist somewhere? --http://libcom.org/forums/solidarity-federation/question-relation-between-solfed-cnt-practices-16012013?page=1#comment-506622

Submitted by Steven. on April 27, 2025

syndicalist wrote: Hi comrades, looking for this thread, does it still exist somewhere? --http://libcom.org/forums/solidarity-federation/question-relation-between-solfed-cnt-practices-16012013?page=1#comment-506622

Thanks for flagging this up. Having reviewed, this thread seems to have no issues and so is now back online: https://libcom.org/discussion/question-relation-between-solfed-and-cnt-practices
 

maquis

3 months 2 weeks ago

Submitted by maquis on August 21, 2025

Hi there! I am looking for the forum threads mentioned in the comments of the "Black Flame" Library entry (https://libcom.org/article/black-flame-revolutionary-class-politics-anarchism-and-syndicalism-lucien-van-der-walt-and), apparently discussing historical failings and inaccuracies of the book:

http://libcom.org/forums/history-culture/new-historical-syndicalist-book-03032009

http://libcom.org/forums/history-culture/books-italian-anarcho-syndicalism-05102010#comment-400771

Btw: can we please have a landing page that links to all forum discussions that have been resurrected? Especially on historical and theoretical topics, I fear that a lot of really valuable content was lost with the removal of the forum (although there were probably good reasons for doing so, which I do no know about). Or maybe a landing page already exists and I'm just too daft to find it?

Also, not all of the valuable discussion on theoretical or historical topics were linked to library comments so it seems there's no hope to ever find and ask to resurrect them, or am I missing something?

Having said that (don't get me wrong), I'm very happy about everything that still exists to this day - thanks for this all your work and for providing this great resource over all these years!

Juan Conatz

3 months 2 weeks ago

Submitted by Juan Conatz on August 21, 2025

Hey, I published those two threads so you should be able to access them now.

maquis

3 months 1 week ago

Submitted by maquis on August 28, 2025

Thanks, Juan, much appreciated!
If anyone could still comment on whether we could have a kind of landing page linking all available discussion topics ( i.e. https://libcom.org/discussion/ ) or if there already is some way to do so, that would be great!

Submitted by Steven. on September 6, 2025

maquis wrote: Thanks, Juan, much appreciated!
If anyone could still comment on whether we could have a kind of landing page linking all available discussion topics ( i.e. https://libcom.org/discussion/ ) or if there already is some way to do so, that would be great!


Hey, the old forum structure was replaced by our Discussions section. You can get to it by clicking Recent, then Discussions, or going to here: https://libcom.org/recent/discussions 

If you want to request any other old threads be republished, you can do so here: https://libcom.org/discussion/request-republishing-older-threads-currently-unavailable 

westartfromhere

2 months 3 weeks ago

Submitted by westartfromhere on September 9, 2025

If you want to request any other old threads be republished

Any reason that all discussions that have taken place on this site cannot be published? So much content seems to have been lost to the ether, only to be retained in the vaults.

Steven.

2 months 3 weeks ago

Submitted by Steven. on September 9, 2025

As we have discussed many times, libcom is over 20 years old, and used to have very loose posting rules. As such many old forum posts contain problematic content, which breached tighter posting rules we introduced later.
So at various points over 20 odd years we have un-published large numbers of old threads which breached comment guidelines. In some of these mass-unpublishings, we may have hidden some threads which either were okay, or could be tidied up relatively easily. However, going through every single one of hundreds of thousands of pages of comments to tidy them up one by one, is impossible.

syndicalist

2 months ago

Submitted by syndicalist on October 1, 2025

Hi comrades ..... I was trying to view this discussion, which no longer appears. I was wondering if someone can do their magic and make it reappear? Thanks & solidarity!
http://libcom.org/forums/nefac/nefac-and-iwa-ait-vs-ils-sil

Steven.

1 month 3 weeks ago

Submitted by Steven. on October 12, 2025

There were several comments which breached posting guidelines in that thread. Have tidied up and re-published

syndicalist

1 month 3 weeks ago

Submitted by syndicalist on October 13, 2025

Thanks, Steven!

Piero Lluumiere

2 weeks 6 days ago

Submitted by Piero Lluumiere on November 13, 2025

"Access denied!": http://libcom.org/forums/thought/black-panthers-and-maoism#comment-489376 ?

Submitted by Steven. on November 15, 2025

Piero Lluumiere wrote: "Access denied!": http://libcom.org/forums/thought/black-panthers-and-maoism#comment-489376 ?

That thread is now back

Piero Lluumiere

1 day 1 hour ago

Submitted by Piero Lluumiere on December 3, 2025

Thank you! (Just returning here)