[matilda] Re: Critique of capitalism..Proposal for workshop(s)

[Gareth Hallam]

ta for that alan, not sure if 'fuck book's were around in san fransisco at
the time of marcuse...

i guess i'd liek to find affinity with people interested in having
rational and critical discussions about how they want to pursue the idea
of anarchy and how they are practicing it, and to quote wolfi
Landstreicher ''The recognition of one’s own struggle in the struggles of
others is what begins to build the solidarity capable of transforming
these individual acts into “the collective struggle for individual
realization”, which I see as the real class struggle.''

i guess at times i find the prescribed practiced behaivour of being an
activist slightly repetative and ininspiring, in that where theres
anarchists they'll always be red and black paint, film documentaries,
pamphlets, benefits, campaigns etc, granted these are important events and
projects, but a little cliched and not a culture which i could possibly
see as a praxis of social transformation, which is what my project is
about...

i'd like to be involved with trying to figure out for example terms like
'power', 'domination', 'affinity', 'anarchy', 'gender',
'civilisation'...what they mean, and how they can be defined and how they
are appropriate to anarchist practice...and how it seems as much as
anarchists want to be free we have a habit of defining life by what we
shouldn't do, rather than what is possible, or what is yet to be
discovered...

so if it means setting up some form of workshop etc to enable to
discussion of such things then all the better, however i won;t be around
for the whole of march as i'm off to france for a month...

ta, gareth



--- Alan Dawson <aland at burngreave.net> wrote:

> Quoting Gareth Hallam <fifteen_counts at yahoo.co.uk>:
> 
> > ''...i feel i have to kick against this not for my interest but for
> the
> > interest of those this world defines as working class...''
> > 
> > so you're now acting an other peoples behalf, a la 'representative
> > democracy', what party will you be joining next then? ;-)
> > 
> > anyway i'd like to discuss bob black's work, he's not famous just for
> his
> > pamphlet 'the abolition of work', he often supplies thorough critiques
> > towards post-leftist anarchy...and maybe a series of discussions
> around
> > this topic, and some sort of effort made to discuss critiques of the
> > institutions that dominate us from technology, work, roles, activism,
> > ideology....
> > 
> 
> Whilst we're discussing revolutionary theory, and as important as the
> 1st
> International, the Frankfurt School, the SI, are to our understanding of
> the
> world, I'd like to add another "school of thought" which I have often
> found
> much more inspiring and and easier to follow examples of revolutionary
> praxis. 
> 
> 
> http://www.louisville.edu/a-s/finearts/faculty/molotiu/images/freak0.jpg
> http://www.louisville.edu/a-s/finearts/faculty/molotiu/images/freak1.jpg
> http://www.louisville.edu/a-s/finearts/faculty/molotiu/images/freak2.jpg
> http://www.louisville.edu/a-s/finearts/faculty/molotiu/images/freak3.jpg
> http://www.louisville.edu/a-s/finearts/faculty/molotiu/images/freak4.jpg
> 
> 
> I hope you find these equally inspiring ;-)
> 
> 
> AED
> -- 
> "If you make decisions about software -- or anything -- based solely on
> short-term cost and benefit, someone with a longer view can easily
> manoeuver you into a trap from which it is hard to escape."  
>   
>  
>  
> 


''Fourier long ago exposed this methodical myopia of treating fundamental questions without relating them to society as a whole.'' - S.I.


		
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