“DESIRE” – Social Ecology ABC
The question seems to me to be, why has it become so difficult to debate? It’s obvious that within any group, and given the complexity of the realities we face, there are bound to be various points of divergence, or…
Social Ecology and Communalism Workshop
“L'Adventice” — Collective for social ecology & communalist perspectives
Social Ecology and Communalism Workshop
“L'Adventice” — Collective for social ecology & communalist perspectives
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“LIBERALISM” – Social Ecology ABC
“Where property is sufficiently protected, it would be easier to live without money than without poor people, because otherwise who would do the work.” “The vast majority must remain both ignorant and poor.” An early champion of market liberalism, Bernard…
Alienation False Consciousness and Reification
These major sociological and philosophical concepts, indispensable to any understanding of the modes of operation of domination, have, in recent decades, been progressively removed from debate, reduced to silence or plunged into a confusionism largely maintained. Because you don’t tell…
Quotes notebook: History/Historiosophy No. 23
The Versaillais entered Paris in 1871. They never left . (Journal – 1962 – René Fallet) This is the painful path that you consider to be the road to defeat, taking into account only those who have traveled it to…
“DEAFNESS” – Social Ecology ABC
At the current stage of disintegration of the structure of society as a whole and worldwide, and even though there seems to be no lasting refuge from this debacle, the defensive reflex for many seems to be to “stop talking…
The Commune of 1871
LOOK AT THE COMMUNE OF PARIS, THAT WAS DEMOCRACY! “The big city has the warm pavement, Despite your showers of oil, And decidedly, we must Shake you out of your role…” Arthur Rimbaud – Parisian War Song ***** “Now, as…
“« FASCIST »” – Social Ecology ABC
Today, the term “fascist” is being used in all sorts of confusing ways. Far right extremists now call their opponents “fascists”. Tendencies claiming to be anarchists point to other anarchist tendencies as suspects of fascist leanings. In short, it’s all…
Possibilities by David Graeber
Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire Rebellion, in the face of the extraordinary mediocrity and pettiness of present-day human society as it has been constructed under the growing pressure of capitalist domination and ideology over the last few centuries, has…
A SICK PLANET
of Guy Debord -1971 “Pollution” is in vogue today, in exactly the same way as revolution: it takes over the whole of society’s life, and is illusorily represented in the spectacle. It is a tiresome chatter in a plethora of…
On the need to shift the focus from work
Nowadays, it is practically impossible to have a conversation with someone without the subject of work coming up. Wherever you work, it is rare for conversations not to start with this question: So? How’s your job? Whether you like it…
Essays on Late Capitalism in the Third Millennium #02
An inventory – Chapter II “Impérialisme d’exclusion et état d’exception” (Imperialism of Exclusion and the State of Exception) by Robert Kurz Published in Germany in 2003 but edited in France in 2018, a text of great lucidity on the new…