A few days ago, the #ZeroCovid campaign was launched, declaring itself as a solidary way out of the pandemic under the pretense of a supposedly leftist stance. In turn, this article will unfold some thoughts on why #ZeroCovid carries an …
#ZeroCovid? On the end of the political difference between 1 and 0
Two years ago we wrote the following on the question of a state fascization that is not only coming, but already exists: The “institutional preventive dispositive” that characterizes the current state, which for Poulantzas, however, also already characterized authoritarian etatism …
The King is naked. The authoritarian drift of the state Embat, Organització Llibertària de Catalunya/A las barricadas After the imprisonment of rapper Pablo Hasél for a song against the monarchy, after the violent repression of the protests against his imprisonment, …
A state unmasks itself: Pablo Hasél and the repression of solidarity protests
taken from Ill Will JULIEN COUPAT ET AL. First published in Reporterre and Terrestres, September 4th, 2020 We have seen the most elementary liberty of bourgeois constitutions—the freedom to come and go— abolished with the snap of a finger. We have seen a …
On Thursday, both Donald Trump and his white nationalist and nativist advisor Stephen Miller announced that they will begin deploying armed officers from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on the streets of cities that have seen large-scale protests—specifically, cities governed …
taken from Spectre Journal Never has the global economy faced such a thorough challenge from a virus. Previous epidemics scythed through populations and ravaged livelihoods, but they remained contained on a regional scale or, where global, impacted the world economy …
Of course, the Corona-Crisis is not affecting everyone equally. On a basic medical level people of so-called “risk-groups” are far more likely to die to the virus as average persons with stable physical health. And on a social level marginalized …
In general, prevention is immanent to a specific time schedule. If the present future, which refers to what is expected of the future, and the future present, which designates that future that will actually occur, are not congruent, then, if …
In a text from 1973, which appeared in the Kursbuch, the sociologist Manfred Clemenz has introduced the concept of structural state fascism, the author assumes that there are no fundamental functional differences between the forms of parliamentary democracy and the …
