Subverting Sci-Fi Civil Wars “The message of Lucas’s Star Wars prequel films is much more difficult and challenging than the original Star Wars trilogy: It shows that the path of apparent “good and evil” in politics and society is a very convoluted one, involving many reversals and surprising twists of fate — one might even say that it is “dialectical.” It is “beyond good and evil” and not at all…
The Haitian Section of the Jacobin International “[Toussaint] Louverture was uniquely prepared for the events of the Saint Domingue revolution. He had an immense theoretical training, learning the revolutionary military tactics of his own future enemies as a general in the French revolutionary army, combining these with local practices of guerrilla warfare. He read [Guillaume] Raynal for a scientific understanding of global colonialism, and above all, his entire life was…
The Hungarian Section of the Situationist International “We fought the Communists because they were not communist!” – Attila Kotányi Class Wargames will be hosting a collective playing of Nights of Fire designed by Brian Train. This cooperative game reenacts the final days of resistance by the Budapest Workers’ Council against the Stalinist counter-revolution. Our goal is to hold off the forces of reaction long enough to enable as many militants…
We are Spartacus!! “Spartacus … declared himself openly to be an enemy of Rome, and called upon all who were slaves or oppressed to rally round him, and to engage in the struggle for emancipation. Multitudes of slaves and dispossed, foreigners and Italians, responded to his appeal. Country people left their holdings, shepherds their sheep, slaves their masters, prisoners broke their bars, conscripted workers broke their chains – all flocked…
The Birth of the Social Republic “The communal revolution, begun by popular initiative on 18th March [1871], begins a new era of experimental, positive, scientific politics.It’s the end of the old governmental and clerical world, of militarism and bureaucracy, of exploitation, speculation, monopolies and privileges to which the proletariat owe their servitude and the Fatherland its misfortunes and disasters.As for us, citizens of Paris, our mission is the accomplishing…
Fomenting the Potlatch of Destruction “Pillage is the natural response to the affluent society: the affluence, however, is by no means natural or human — it is simply abundance of goods. Pilllage, moreover, which instantly destroys commodities as such, discloses the ultima ratio of commodities, namely, the army, the police and the other specialized detachments which have the monopoly of armed force within the State. What is a policeman?…
