Frédéric Lordon: The euro, or hating democracy
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“As always,” Frédéric Lordon writes, “institutional orders reveal their true essence when they are at their limits, in conditions of extreme crisis.” For Lordon, the actions of the troika over |
Baltimore – The scandal is not that we are killed, but that they force us to live like that
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The Anthropocene Myth
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Blaming all of humanity for climate change lets capitalism off the hook.by Andreas MalmLast year was the hottest year ever recorded. And yet, the latest figures show that in 2013 the source that provided the most new … |
The poor fetish: commodifying working class culture
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By On February 25, 2015 Source: http://roarmag.org/2015/02/london-middle-class-culture-poverty/ Bullshit jobs and a pointless existence are increasingly driving London’s spiritually dead middle class towards a fetishization of working class culture. Literally, he paints her portrait, then he can fuck … |
Henry A. Giroux: The Militarization of Racism and Neoliberal Violence
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The recent killing of an unarmed 18-year-old African-American, Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Missouri, by a white police officer has made visible how a kind of racist, military metaphysics now dominates American life. His subsequent demonization by the media only confirms … |
Bosnia and Herzegovina in Spring
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This short documentary tells the story of the uprising in Bosnia and Herzegovina that started in early February 2014. Since February 5 2014, protests have swept across Bosnia and Herzegovina. The protests were started by workers from five factories in … |
Coup in Ukraine: A warning to the international working class
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The recent events in Ukraine are a warning to the international working class. Under conditions in which workers lack both a perspective and a party to enable them to intervene independently in political events, the situation in Ukraine has developed … |
From the State of Control to a Praxis of Destituent Power
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By Giorgio Agamben On February 4, 2014 This is the transcript of a public lecture by Italian … |
If Nelson Mandela really had won, he wouldn't be seen as a universal hero
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by Slavoj Žižek, theguardian.com, Monday 9 December 2013 10.05 GMT In the last two decades of his life, Nelson Mandela was celebrated as a model of how to liberate a country from the colonial yoke without succumbing to the temptation … |
German grand coalition to intensify austerity policies in Europe
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An important political lesson must be drawn from the coalition agreement struck after two months of negotiations between Germany’s conservative parties (the Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union) and the Social Democratic Party: It is impossible for working … |
