Power Play in the Tropics “The active phase of a coup is like a military operation – only more so. If the general principle of tactics is the application of force at the right place, the coup achieves this with surgical precision by striking at the organisational heart of the whole state; if speed is often important in military operations, in the coup it is an essential requirement. But the…
Fighting in the Wars of the Outer Worlds “Lucas isn’t exactly doing anything unprecedented — the Empire is basically a bunch of space Nazis, and Lucas parallels the Empire’s rise in the prequels with the Nazi Party’s rise in Germany. But for as stilted and affectless as the films can be, they’re tapped into something raw and real about how often seemingly stable societies collapse into fascism, into revolution, into…
The rise and fall of aṣabiyyah “Wars and different kinds of fighting have always occurred in the world since Allah created it. The origin of war is the desire of certain human beings to take revenge on others. Each side is supported by the people sharing its group feeling. When they have sufficiently excited each other for the purpose and the two sides confront each other, one seeking revenge and…
Ludic Education for the Proletarian Vanguard “By being thrown into history, by having to participate in the labour and struggles which make up history, people find themselves obliged to view their relations in a clear manner. This history has no object distinct from what takes place within it, even though the last unconscious metaphysical vision of the historical epoch could look at the productive progression through which history has unfolded…
Sci-Fi Battles in the Grim Dark Future “As I continue to ponder what, precisely, my politics are – and how I can understand The Political in connection to said politics – I decided it might be worthwhile to attempt a kind of critique against some of my favorite fiction to draw out my understandings and make them easier to confront. To this end I have taken up looking at Warhammer…
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 with its designer 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…
