As a Marxist, let me add: if anyone tells you Lacan is difficult, this is class propaganda by the enemy.
Anonymous: Occupy the Planet
Occupy the Halls
No war but class war.
Adolescent outrage seethes too. A lifetime of wartime and economic injustice and inequity.
Participation - the practice of citizenship and self advocacy in the community - is criminal truancy.
Demand human rights. Settle for civil liberties.
Demand humanity. Settle for citizenship.
Demonstrate your bandwith and #occupythehalls.
An empty seat may yet be a crime; an empty classroom is a practicum in civics.
Form sublimely. It’s your revolution too.
(via pinkofred)
Source: planetsedge
Best instructions ever…
Occupy Together
A blog about the occupations and attempt to organize occupations in cities all over the US. Is your city on the list?
(via amodernmanifesto)
Source: themuckofages
Our task is to discover how to take a step further; our thesis today should be: critical leftists have hitherto only dirtied with dust the balls of those in power. The point is to cut them off.
Big Boy Slavoj (via pensiveposition)
Source: penspo
Guides to Pacific Revolution, Insurrection, and Coups
Free PDF texts from Albert Einstein Institution. Incredible Resource.
Networks are necessary, but not sufficient, for social upheaval
My latest Guardian column, “Networks are not always revolutionary,” argues that networks are necessary, but not sufficient, for many disruptive commercial, cultural and social phenomena, and that this character has led many people to either overstate or dismiss the role and potential of networked technology in current events…
-Cory Doctorow
The Terms of Liberty
Throughout the day, we’re posting critical vocabulary for liberatory discourses. We’re relying on Joe L. Kincheloe’s Critical Pedagogy (Peter Lang Primer), because the marginal glossary is geared to readers new to critical theory without condescending or being patronizing. The definitions are concise, terse, and therefore necessarily simplistic - often oversimplified and problematic. They remain nevertheless a remarkable starting point. #terms of liberty - dialogue, problematizing, elaborations encouraged.
The Russian Revolution and the Soviet Government: Letter to the Workers of Western Europe - Peter Kropotkin
Dmitrov, Russia,
April 28, 1919
I have been asked if I did not have a message for the workers of the western world. Certainly there is plenty to say an learn of the actual events in Russia. As the message would have to be long to cover all, I will indicate only the principal points.
…if you want to provoke revolt, don’t draw a line between yourself and the rest of the world and threaten everyone across it. Don’t propagate a universal program, don’t campaign for recruits, for heaven’s sake don’t ‘educate the masses!’ Forget about persuading people to your opinion - encourage them to develop the power to form their own.
Crimethinc. (via 18goingon80)
(via liberationfrequency)
Source: anarchyagogo
Myrrh and Mint: How to Live with a Revolutionary Without Losing your Head (Or Turning His In)
Chapter 5: On conferences and public speaking
The revolutionary absolutely loves public speaking, for where else would he get the training for his opening speech when the revolution is finally victorious and the Proletariat has finally taken over? Hence the revolutionary thrives to be ready for…
RIP Gil Scott-Heron. As you so wisely wrote, the Revolution will not be Televised (but it may start on the internet, lol). You will be missed!
Gil Scott-Heron, Poet & Musician, Has Died http://t.co/PA09b1YThe revolution will no be televised
You will not be able to stay home, brother.
You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out.
You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,
Skip out for beer during commercials,
Because the revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox
In 4 parts without commercial interruptions.
The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon
blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John
Mitchell, General Abrams and Spiro Agnew to eat
hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary.
The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be brought to you by the
Schaefer Award Theatre and will not star Natalie
Woods and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia.
The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal.
The revolution will not get rid of the nubs.
The revolution will not make you look five pounds
thinner, because the revolution will not be televised, Brother.
There will be no pictures of you and Willie May
pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run,
or trying to slide that color television into a stolen ambulance.
NBC will not be able predict the winner at 8:32
or report from 29 districts.
The revolution will not be televised.
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of Whitney Young being
run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process.
There will be no slow motion or still life of Roy
Wilkens strolling through Watts in a Red, Black and
Green liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving
For just the proper occasion.
Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville
Junction will no longer be so damned relevant, and
women will not care if Dick finally gets down with
Jane on Search for Tomorrow because Black people
will be in the street looking for a brighter day.
The revolution will not be televised.
There will be no highlights on the eleven o’clock
news and no pictures of hairy armed women
liberationists and Jackie Onassis blowing her nose.
The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb,
Francis Scott Key, nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom
Jones, Johnny Cash, Englebert Humperdink, or the Rare Earth.
The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be right back
after a message about a white tornado, white lightning, or white people.
You will not have to worry about a dove in your
bedroom, a tiger in your tank, or the giant in your toilet bowl.
The revolution will not go better with Coke.
The revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath.
The revolution will put you in the driver’s seat.
The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised,
will not be televised, will not be televised.
The revolution will be no re-run brothers;
The revolution will be live.
…To its credit, Survival Guide for Citizens in a Revolution recognises it can only ever aspire to be a snapshot: It doesn’t aspire to be as comprehensive as the Zombie Survival Guide and consequently avoids an essentializing trap that would ignore the material circumstances that would define a revolutionary moment: “This guide will give you some basic ideas and tips for how you and your friends/neighbors/family can stay safe in the violent turmoil around you. It is not a ready-made recipe, but it contains survival tactics and strategies” (02)…
vanguardparty.org for full review (and the PDF if necessary)
Source: vanguardparty.org
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