Category Archives: Commentary

On friendship and happiness: Reflections on joyful militancy

Posted on January 21, 2018 by Julius Gavroche

Yue Minjun But in much of Ionia and elsewhere in the Persian Empire the rule is that love-affairs are wrong.  In Persia, it is because of their tyrannical government that they condemn them, as well as intellectual and athletic activities.  … Continue reading →

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Self-Destruction as Insurrection: An essay by Irmgard Emmelhainz

Posted on January 19, 2018 by Julius Gavroche

… from Devil’s Freedom by Everardo González  What remains of “revolution” when an absolute capitalism generates profits from the death of superfluous populations?  What “liberal subject” bearer of rights, not to speak of  “revolutionary subject”, persists when the redundant have … Continue reading →

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With and beyond anti-fascism (3): Georges Bataille and the anarchy of life

Posted on January 14, 2018 by Julius Gavroche

Fascism is not to be debated. It is to be smashed… Buenaventura Durruti It was one of the greatest errors in evaluating dictatorship to say that the dictator forces himself on society against its own will. In reality, every dictator … Continue reading →

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Revolution in the end time (2): A reflection

Posted on January 13, 2018 by Julius Gavroche

Our response to the climate crisis has been to rearrange deckchairs on the Titanic — but whatever we do, it isn’t working. It’s time to try something new.   From roarmag, an essay by Kevin Buckland; a further reflection on … Continue reading →

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Revolution in the end time: A reflection

Posted on January 13, 2018 by Julius Gavroche

We are writing to answer the question we ask and are asked daily: “But really, what should we be doing?” Posted on the anarchist library, and anonymous reflection on radical anti-capitalist politics in our time of permanent crisis.

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With and beyond anti-fascism (1)

Posted on January 6, 2018 by Julius Gavroche

… to make use of the weapons created by fascism, which has been allowed to use the fundamental aspirations of people for affective exultation and fanaticism. But we affirm that the exaltation… must be placed in the service… of a … Continue reading →

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Like a thief: Slavoj Žižek and the illusions of hope

Posted on January 4, 2018 by Julius Gavroche

Alex Colville, Horse and Train To be contemporary is to respond to the appeal that the darkness of the epoch makes to us. In the expanding Universe, the space that separates us from the furthest galaxies is growing at such … Continue reading →

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For Katarina Gogou

Posted on December 22, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

… we convalescents still need art, it is another kind of art – a mocking, light, fleeting, divinely untroubled, divinely artificial art that, like a bright flame, blazes into an unclouded sky! Above all: an art for artists, only for artists! Friedrich … Continue reading →

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On popular power in venezuela: A statement by uruguayan anarchists

Posted on December 18, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

From the anarchist federation of uruguay (and posted, in english translation, by the black rose anarchist federation – 14/12/2017), reflections on popular power in venezuela’s “bolivarian revolution” …

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Scenes from the class struggle: Argentina

Posted on December 18, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

The popular defense of State controlled social welfare is not in itself anti-capitalist.  However, the State driven privatisation of social welfare, if placed within the context of broader forms of violent accumulation (e.g., land and resource dispossession, the imposition of … Continue reading →

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