Johnson Forest City
@johnsonforestcity.bsky.social
Abstract labor hater. Stop the thing-ification of social relations. Have mercy, been waitin' for the bus all day. I got my brown paper bag and my take-home pay
New on libcom: Nonsynchronism and the Obligation to Its Dialectics by Ernst Bloch. Ernst Bloch writes in 1932 on the importance of the contradictions in the present and nostalgia (nonsynchronism) and potentials for liberation or fascism. libcom.org/article/nons...
Nonsynchronism and the Obligation to Its Dialectics - Ernst Bloch
Ernst Bloch writes in 1932 on the importance of the contradictions in the present and nostalgia (nonsynchronism) and potentials for liberation or fascism.
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As Bloch would say, "I believe, Teddy, that we are certainly in agreement here: the essential function of utopia is a critique of what is present."
Johnson Forest City@johnsonforestcity.bsky.social · 2y agoNew on libcom: Something’s Missing: A Discussion between Ernst Bloch and Theodor W. Adorno on the Contradictions of Utopian Longing libcom.org/article/some...
New on libcom: Towards a Theory of 'Commonization' provides an overview of analytic communization vs. prefigurative communization and the need for creating spaces towards abolishing the commodity form, exchange, money, wage labor/value, and the state. libcom.org/article/towa...
Towards a Theory of 'Commonization' - Nick Clare and Victoria Habermehl
Nick Clare and Victoria Habermehl provide an overview of analytic communization vs. prefigurative communization and the need for creating spaces towards abolishing the commodity form, exchange, money,...
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New on libcom: Something’s Missing: A Discussion between Ernst Bloch and Theodor W. Adorno on the Contradictions of Utopian Longing libcom.org/article/some...
Something’s Missing: A Discussion between Ernst Bloch and Theodor W. Adorno on the Contradictions of Utopian Longing
Ernst Bloch and Theodor W. Adorno discuss notions of hope, negation, and utopia in this interview from 1964. Bloch argues that Marx opposed the superabundance of abstract utopia of so-called utopian s...
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State theory in the age of state capitalism 3.0? Published in 2021, Ilias Alami provides a theory of the capitalist state that allows for current varieties of state capitalism. libcom.org/article/stat...
State theory in the age of state capitalism 3.0? - Ilias Alami
Published in 2021, Ilias Alami provides a theory of the capitalist state that allows for current varieties of state capitalism. The ideas here have been expanded in The Problématique of State Capitali...
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Translating ‘Capital’ for the 21st Century Sat, December 14 @ 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM A conversation with Paul North, Paul Reitter, and Michael Heinrich marxedproject.org/event/transl...
Translating 'Capital' for the 21st Century - Marxist Education Project
The appearance of a new English-language edition of Marx's Capital, Volume I, translated and edited by Paul Reitter and Paul North, has been a momentous occasion. Join a conversation with Reitter, Nor...
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If you had to recommend one book as an intro for stateless, classless, moneyless world what would it be?
What's up with Foucault saying anarchism and socialism were racist until social democracy happened? (From the last few pages of Society Must be Defended)
Lol
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2y ago".. During a radio interview Saturday .., Bessent said 'tariffs can’t be inflationary because if the price of one thing goes up -- unless you give people more money -- then they have less money to spend on the other thing, so there is no inflation.'" @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2024/11/25/b...
"When liberalism’s political & economic forms collapse, its cultural register can persist... The Economist noted Harris was ‘running on vibes’. Yet if this kind of liberalism is ultimately no more than the negative freedom of individuals to define themselves, this allows the far right to co-opt it"
Michael A. McCarthy, Three Liberalisms — Sidecar
Tosaka and Trump.
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Class abstractionists could never comprehend..
Howdy everyone! First post here it goes 🫡 : Our last meeting for the year is 12/22 at 6:30 PM ET, we’ll be discussing the last chapters of Hannah Proctor’s Burnout and then deciding future readings for 2025. 📖 We’d love to have you there! Here is our discord for more details: discord.gg/x4DaChSz
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Some new Open Marxism Stuff on Libcom: Here in the first issue of Common Sense, Werner Bonefeld describes what Open Marxism is. libcom.org/article/open...
Open Marxism - Werner Bonefeld
Common Sense was the Journal of the Edinburgh Conference of Socialist Economists (CSE) published from May 1987 – December of 1999. It was a “journal of a wholly new type.. a non-university based t...
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Might as well announce it here: Paul Reitter's new translation of Capital, vol. 1, with editorial notes by Reitter and Paul North and an afterword by moi, has passed through review at Princeton and will be going into production very soon. Been a long time coming, but it should arrive in 2024!
After a year of reading and discussion I'm happy to share: C.L.R. James and the Johnson-Forest Tendency Discussion Guide! We dug through many JFT readings & scanned new documents to highlight underappreciated figures from the JFT. Check it out! https://counselingcommunism.com/jft/
C.L.R. James and the Johnson-Forest Tendency. Counseling Communism Discussion Guide #2:
The Counseling Communism Study Circle met from May 2021-May 2022 to discuss the works of the Johnson Forest Tendency (JFT). We have collected their most important works here, and encourage you to find...
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Watched Desperately Seeking Susan and the cameo of John Lurie playing saxophone made me so happy. And it was made only a year after Stranger Than Paradise seems crazy.
Lmk if you want to go in on this with me https://www.axios.com/local/cleveland/2023/08/03/cleveland-west-pierhead-lighthouse
Hey y'all What should I listen to? Gonna be on the road for 12 hours this weekend.
Was John Arnold DeMarco actually Don Juan?
Is "exchange-value-positing-labor" (Sam Chambers translation) or "exchange-value-creating production" (Nicolaus translation in Grundrisse) a more helpful term than abstract labor?
"What this reveals, on the other side, is the foolishness of those socialists (namely the French, who want to depict socialism as the realization of the ideals of bourgeois society articulated by the French revolution).. " Marx, Grundrisse p. 248
I'm a transit weirdo. My day yesterday: -3 hours on shuttle from Ocean City to BWI Amtrak -2 hours waiting/riding MARC train to DC -11 hours on Amtrak to Ohio