„Was nützt einem Gesundheit, wenn man ansonsten ein Idiot ist“ – Adorno #Einleitung Der Coronavirus und die von ihm ausgelöste Lungenkrankheit Covid-19 stürzen die Menschen auf der ganzen Welt in Chaos und Unglück. Noch nie dürften so viele Menschen zugleich […]
Autonome Perspektiven auf Wirtschaft, Staat, Coronavirus (dt,english)
Ten people had been massacred by a fascist just a few hours earlier, and I had hurried to Neukölln after work. So I stood there on the sidelines and let the demonstration pass by, looking for familiar faces. I looked
Bologna in times of the Coronavirus – The Wu Ming Diary
The new coronavirus is keeping the world in a state of shock. But instead of fighting the structural causes of the pandemic, the government is focusing on emergency measures. Yaak Pabst for the German socialist magazine Marx21 spoke to evolutionary
Capitalist agriculture and Covid-19: A deadly combination
Wuhan is known colloquially as one of the “four furnaces” (四大火炉) of China for its oppressively hot humid summer, shared with Chongqing, Nanjing and alternately Nanchang or Changsha, all bustling cities with long histories along or near the Yangtze river
Soacial Contagion / Microbiological Class War in China
“We, and no one else.” – There is an overwhelming scene in Todd Haynes’ latest film, Dark Waters (2019), which shows how toxic chemicals used in the production of Teflon were spilled into the Ohio River. The lawyer, who went
Only us: Ecology-against-the-State
It is easy to see today that in the course of implementing neo-liberal strategies, the state is being increasingly restricted in its function as the guarantor of social peace and compromise between the classes, while the various modes of operation
ABSTRACT Neoliberalism and austerity are not ‘false policies’, but strategies of increasing profits by reducing labor and welfare costs. In the process of dismantling labor rights and the welfare state, a part of the population is being marginalized. It becomes
Transcending the nation: a communist strategy in the era ofglobalization. A reply to Velissariou
In classical fascism, an organization that was at first externally and strictly hierarchically structured for the state gained dominance over the state apparatuses through the legal assumption of power, and then merged with them in a specific way, whereby the
Old fascism and new right-wing populism
What is to be Done? Plenary speech at the 14th annual conference of the world Association for political economy, winnipeg, 19th July 2019 Alan Freeman The conference title is ‘Class, State and Nation’. My title is ‘What is to be
The new government in Greece is launching an unprecedented offensive against the libertarian and self-governing movement. The newly elected right-wing prime minister Kyrikas Mitsotakis has publicly promised to “clean up” Exarchia this summer and smash the anarchist group ‘Rouvikonas’ (1).
Greek territory: The hunt for anarchists has begun
(part I of an on going research project on political anthropology, D&G, Clastres, etc.) “Primitive society has always been considered a place of absolute difference in relation to western society, a strange and unthinkable space of absence – absence of
‘June, 1972 & A chief who does not command:’ Clastres/Deleuze/Guattari
Collective nihilism is no better than the lonelier forms of despair. The revulsion is perhaps a version of the “uncanny valley,” that experience of disturbing familiarity when a simulacrum of a person comes close to impersonating human behavior, so close
Voting for the End of the World