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 president claiming to regulate the “ ...
CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective
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 by Democrats. According to The Daily Mail, Trump stated he ...
Tithi Bhattacharya / Gareth Dale
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 less precipitously. Noteworthy too is the fact that never in recent ...
capital, class struggle, finance, marxism, pandemie, state fascism, virus, welfare state
We’ll manage it. We’ll stay home. We all have to take responsibility. The “we” has conjunctions these days, in times of a rampant pandemic totalitarianism. A large part of the left is sublimating under this we.
“I don’t know any parties anymore, I only know Germans”. ...
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 and poor people are more affected by the socio-economic effects. ...
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 one looks at it economically at first, through the use ...
marxism, prevention, state fascism, state theory, virtual enenmy
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 fascist states of exception, but just only phenomenological changes are ...
capital, governace, marxism, state fascism, state paranoia, state theory, world market
