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

[Helen and Nick]

Well if the red and black paint is so off putting you
can always find another venue might I suggest the
Quaker meeting house or New Roots in Burngreave.

N.


--- Gareth Hallam <fifteen_counts at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> 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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