Since the 1970s, capitalist economic policy has been rooted in “fighting inflation,” an euphemism for “crushing the workers.” This policy is rooted in the notion of the “Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment” (or NAIRU) and, like most of the silly and/or nasty ideas in modern economics, has its roots in the works of Milton Friedman.
It is this dogma which drove Brown’s decision to make the Bank of England “independent” of political control back in 1997 and so allow it to meet inflation targets by any means it sees fit. How turning policy decisions on the economy over to unelected and unaccountable technocrats based on a specific (right-wing) interpretation of how inflati... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
In the pale, sad twilight hour, pregnant with comic and tragic events, while all ridiculous pettiness achieves manifestation and crime is erected as a life system, as an athletic gymnastic drill, while the blood of revolutionary and non-revolutionary citizens bathes the beautiful lands of Italy, anarchist individualism — unique and radiant living and historical reality — blazes majestically and gloriously beyond so much civil and social putridity toward joy, toward liberty, toward the sun.
The latest squall that raged suddenly in the cities and villages, has swept away people and things.
It was predictable and fatal.
The theory of love and meekness, propagated by all the Parties and all the proletarian organ... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
Participatory Economics (parecon) was proposed in two books (The Political Economy of Participatory Economics, and Looking Forward: Participatory Economics for the Twenty First Century) and has some support among anarchists and autonomists. It is a system for managing the economy of (present and) future society based on a fairer relationship between producer and consumer. While it continues to make use of a (modified) market, it seeks to abolish the power of capitalists to dictate the value of our work and the cost of consumption (i.e. wages and prices) by establishing a democratic, participatory economy based on socialized production but individualized consumption. Now who could argue with that?
As social and organizational anarchists, me... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
On the 19th of January, several of the heavyweights of Italian post-Workerist theory — Toni Negri, Bifo Berardi, Maurizio Lazzarato, and Judith Revel — appeared at the Tate Modern to talk about art. This is a review.
Or, it is a review in a certain sense. I want to give an account of what happened. But I also want to talk about why I think what happened was interesting and important. For me at least, this means addressing not only what was said but just as much, perhaps, what wasn’t; and asking questions like “why immaterial labor ?”, and “why did it make sense to all concerned to bring a group of revolutionary theorists over from Italy to talk about art history in the first place?”
As... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
This article is translated to English from its original Italian, this article appeared in Machete #1.
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” — Benjamin Franklin
It’s a problem that gets talked about a lot, but whose diagnosis is terse. On the right and on the left, the verdict is the same: we live in an “unsafe climate”.
Everyday the news showers us with gallons of blood gathered at the scenes of ambushes, rapes, murders. Bloody events described and filmed with a maniacal wealth of details, making horrible shivers run up our spines that are already weakened by daily genuflections.
Watching the mi... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
In this age of quick transmission of thought, when all our energies are strained to learn more and more about the sayings and doings of our fellow beings, and especially those who are engaged in the same line of work with ourselves, it becomes absolutely necessary for us to have a medium of exchange if we are to keep in touch with each other, and if we are to do any effective work. I believe we have all felt this need most intensely since the suspension of Free Society. The Liberator comes to fill this want. Comrades, are you ready to support the paper? Are you ready to give your moral and financial assistance? If the paper is not what you wish it to be, then make it so, write articles, send in reports about meetings and reform movements ge... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
Published Essays and Pamphlets
Samuel Gompers by Emma Goldman [Published in The Road to Freedom (New York), Vol. 1,
March 1925.]
The numerous tributes paid to the late President of the American
Federation of Labor, emphasized his great leadership. "Gompers
was a leader of men," they said. One would have expected that the
disaster brought upon the world by leadership would have proven
that to be a leader of men is far from a virtue. Rather is it a
vise for which those who are being led are usually made to pay
very heavily.
The last fifteen years are replete with examples of what the
leaders of men have done to the peoples of the world. The Lenins,
Clemenceaus, the Lloyd Georges and Wilson, have all posed as
great lead... (From: Anarchy Archives.)
Source: Science and Society, Fall 1972, Vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 258-273. Transcribed: by Thomas Schmidt;
SOMEHOW, AND FOR REASONS known only to himself, Paul A. Samuelson cannot
leave Marx alone. His latest concern[1] in this respect is an attempt to have the last word in
a long-drawn controversy regarding the relation between value and price in the
Marxian system. He acknowledges right from the start that the criticism made by
Böhmm-Bawerk and others, namely that Marx was not able to sustain the
theory of value as presented in Volume I of Capital and abandoned it
in favor of a price theory in Volume III, cannot be made because of the fact
that the third volume was completed prior to the publication of the first.
Samuelson insi... (From: Marxists.org.)
“My freedom is only valid if yours is too.”
Canek Sanchez Guevara.
Canek Sanchez Guevara was the eldest grandson of Ernesto Che Guevara. Hildita Guevara was his mother and his father was Alberto Sanchez, a Mexican leftist. He was born in Havana on the 22nd May 1974. Canek means Black Snake in Yucatec Maya.
As a child he lived with his parents in Milan and Barcelona, attending a Spanish-Catalan school in the latter city. He then lived in Mexico, returning to Cuba in 1986. He quickly became disgusted with the Castro regime and the way it persecuted writers, artists and others. He rejected the role that the regime were preparing for him as a high ranking military officer. He started dressing like a punk. He he... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
24th June 1894, the President of the French Republic Sadi Carnot reached the end of his life in Lyon under the blows of a young Italian anarchist, Sante Caserio.
The killing made a tremendous impact in France as well as in Italy and all over Europe. Though Umberto I and Crispi showed their execration and grief, people attacked a number of Italian shops in Lyons and in other French towns, and in Paris they even demanded to go to war against Italy. A ship of Italian emigrants on their way to America was compelled to avoid all French ports, while many fugitives terrified of reprisals started flocking into Turin.
But Caserio’s attack had no nationalistic intent whatsoever.
On the contrary, it was planned by its author... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
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