2019 wall calendars

Submitted by jondwhite on December 30, 2018

A large anarchist wall calendar has been published here
https://www.zazzle.co.uk/greatest_anarchists_2019_calendar-158597340485315491

adri

5 years 2 months ago

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Submitted by adri on December 30, 2018

https://working-class-history.myshopify.com/collections/christmas/products/wch-otd-2019-wall-calendar

This is nice too.

Noah Fence

5 years 2 months ago

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Submitted by Noah Fence on December 30, 2018

I’d just as soon buy a Che t-shirt.

R Totale

5 years 2 months ago

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Submitted by R Totale on December 30, 2018

Going to plug the Certain Days calendar here, available in the UK through Active Distribution. Also if you want a diary, I think Brighton ABC have sold out of their copies of the Bottled Wasp, but it seems to still be available through Pozor Distro. There's also another labor history calendar here. I remember there used to be a really nice Geordie radical diary called Wor Diary, no idea if they're making one for this year though.

R Totale

5 years 2 months ago

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Submitted by R Totale on December 30, 2018

Edit: oop, doublepost.

Noah Fence

5 years 2 months ago

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Submitted by Noah Fence on December 30, 2018

zugzwang

Noah Fence

I’d just as soon buy a Che t-shirt.

What's wrong with calendars? I also like the fact there's an entire Wiki page on wearing Che t-shirts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara_in_fashion...

I guess I’m just a bit snooty about anarchism being made into a commodity.

Fleur

5 years 2 months ago

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Submitted by Fleur on December 30, 2018

Honestly Noah, nobody is going to be able to retire to the Bahamas by selling a few very niche wall calendars on Zazzle. I figure that if you're buying one them putting a few quid into the pocket of a comrade at the same time isn't a bad thing.

Noah Fence

5 years 2 months ago

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Submitted by Noah Fence on December 30, 2018

Fleur

Honestly Noah, nobody is going to be able to retire to the Bahamas by selling a few very niche wall calendars on Zazzle. I figure that if you're buying one them putting a few quid into the pocket of a comrade at the same time isn't a bad thing.

Ah, but where you make your error Fleur is that you failed to take into account that I’m a curmudgeonly old bastard that just chose to spend Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day on my own away from my partner and kids because, amongst other reasons, the commercialisation of fucking everything makes me want to jump off the Orwell bridge with my pockets full of rocks.

jondwhite

5 years 2 months ago

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Submitted by jondwhite on December 30, 2018

Noah Fence

zugzwang

Noah Fence

I’d just as soon buy a Che t-shirt.

What's wrong with calendars? I also like the fact there's an entire Wiki page on wearing Che t-shirts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara_in_fashion...

I guess I’m just a bit snooty about anarchism being made into a commodity.

Unfortunately lots of ordinary people associate anarchism with Russell Brand or musicians like Arch Enemy, when they should be reading Bakunin or Kropotkin instead.

Fleur

5 years 2 months ago

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Submitted by Fleur on December 30, 2018

I guess that I just haven't attained your level of grinchiness yet. I had a very nice Xmas btw. A bunch of people with nowhere else to go came over and despite my extreme antisocial tendencies, I actually had a good time.

Noah Fence

5 years 2 months ago

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Submitted by Noah Fence on December 30, 2018

Unfortunately lots of ordinary people associate anarchism with Russell Brand or musicians like Arch Enemy, when they should be reading Bakunin or Kropotkin instead.

I don’t really see how the mugshots of a bunch weirdy beardies is going to do anything to rectify that.
Anyways, ignore me, I’m in a bad mood, I’d probably pick holes in the establishment of full communism if that happened tonight.

Fleur

5 years 2 months ago

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Submitted by Fleur on December 30, 2018

Full communism tonight? Fucking diabolical. Should have happened last week before I paid my phone bill :p

Noah Fence

5 years 2 months ago

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Submitted by Noah Fence on December 30, 2018

Anyways, I’ve actually already purchased a calendar - the BBC Countryfile one. No shit. Now that’s one for the ‘I’m officially middle class’ thread. And I’ll tell you this, it’s a whole lot better to look at than this bunch of plug uglies.

adri

5 years 2 months ago

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Submitted by adri on December 31, 2018

Noah Fence

Fleur

Honestly Noah, nobody is going to be able to retire to the Bahamas by selling a few very niche wall calendars on Zazzle. I figure that if you're buying one them putting a few quid into the pocket of a comrade at the same time isn't a bad thing.

Ah, but where you make your error Fleur is that you failed to take into account that I’m a curmudgeonly old bastard that just chose to spend Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day on my own away from my partner and kids because, amongst other reasons, the commercialisation of fucking everything makes me want to jump off the Orwell bridge with my pockets full of rocks.

I wound up sleeping through the holidays myself, mostly through lack of choice and some antisocial tendencies. (Night shifts are a great way to avoid people and the general rush of capitalism/business as usual.) Don't think there's any escaping commodities in capitalism unless you don't buy anything. AK Press sells "anarchist commodities" in the form of books etc.

Noah Fence

5 years 2 months ago

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Submitted by Noah Fence on December 31, 2018

Zugzwang

Of course, your point is entirely valid, but to win an argument with me using that point relies on me placing an expectation of moral consistency on myself, which I don’t. I reserve that expectation for others and closely scrutinise them for it!

ajjohnstone

5 years 2 months ago

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Submitted by ajjohnstone on December 31, 2018

Fraid the prices of the calendars are far too high.

jondwhite

5 years 2 months ago

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Submitted by jondwhite on December 31, 2018

Certain Days and Solidarity Forever are both around £10. Bottled Wasp is only £5. I suspect the various producers are only breaking even on costs.

Fozzie

5 years 2 months ago

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Submitted by Fozzie on December 31, 2018

The Zazzle calendar is just portraits with no quotes. This is at best a missed opportunity for propaganda, or at worst a cynical attempt to commodify the cult of personality.

The title “greatest anarchists 2019” suggests the latter.

Fozzie

5 years 2 months ago

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Submitted by Fozzie on December 31, 2018

Also it’s weird that the Socialist Party of Canada have subcontracted production of their calendar to an anarchocommunist, but I guess that’s where the talent is these days.