COMMUNE | A POPULAR MAGAZINE FOR A NEW ERA OF REVOLUTIONSEE ISSUE 5THE YEAR IN STRUGGLES JOSHUA CLOVERHARLAN PRIDE CAITLIN MYERS Commune is a popular magazine for a new era of revolution.
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About. Commune is a popular magazine for a new era of revolution. The old political orientations are dead: the center cannot hold. While others offer social democratic fantasy from a past that cannot return, we bring you instead the future, a magazine of politics and culture that knows what so many already intuitively recognize: capitalism can SIGN IN | COMMUNE
Commune is a popular magazine for a new era of revolution Follow @commune_mag Email address: COMBAT AND INCARCERATION The mythical and perhaps apocryphal prison fighting style, known as 52 Handblocks or Jailhouse Rock, attested to by Mike Tyson and popularized by Wu-Tang Clan, claims its origins in a variant of knocking and kicking adapted for the close-quarters combat of multi-person prison brawls. Photo by Frank McMains. THE SATANIC DEATH-CULT IS REAL Some might contend that all of us already secretly know. This is Tony Williams’s argument, in Hearths of Darkness: The Family in the American Horror Film, which shows popular horror flicks to be vehicles of mass anti-family desire.In the short horror film Ari Aster made in 2010 and submitted with his thesis—The Strange Thing About the Johnsons—the peaceful facade of an affluent African SIX STEPS TO ABOLISH THE FAMILY 1. Set up a protest kitchen. The best starting point to abolish the family is a massive insurrection. Come together with others at protest camps, street barricades, square occupations, seized factories, building takeovers, and other liberated zones. There, generate the means of collective survival, expanding the insurrection. THE AMERICAN COUNTERREVOLUTION While the American Revolution had a variety of motivations, the preservation of slavery and the business of slavery was a key issue in elites’ drive for independence. In response to this conservative mutiny, enslaved people led a simultaneous and often divergent revolution for emancipation, one that leaves us a truer legacy of a fight for
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The mass socialist parties of Europe, seeking a politics of working-class respectability, had long been ambivalent towards the “lumpenproletariat,” “the underclass,” “the poor.”. If the dignity of work is the basis of socialism, junkies unable to maintain stable employment have THE AMERICAN ROOTS OF A RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY The American Roots of a Right-Wing Conspiracy. White-supremacist fearmongering about “cultural Marxism” continues to inspire violent attacks, from Norway to New Zealand. But the origins of the theory are American through and through. In 2010, the intellectual historian Martin Jay wrote a short and illuminating column for Salmagundi on the
101 NOTES ON THE LA TENANTS UNION 7. We don’t have a housing crisis. We have a tenants’ rights crisis. 8. In the LA Tenants Union, the subject of our work is not housing. It’s the tenant. 9. A tenant can be harassed, evicted, displaced, broke, undocumented, fed up, or organized. A tenant can be in kindergarten, can be a teacher, or a teacher on strike. COMMUNE | A POPULAR MAGAZINE FOR A NEW ERA OF REVOLUTIONSEE ISSUE 5THE YEAR IN STRUGGLES JOSHUA CLOVERHARLAN PRIDE CAITLIN MYERS Commune is a popular magazine for a new era of revolution. ABOUT | COMMUNE
About. Commune is a popular magazine for a new era of revolution. The old political orientations are dead: the center cannot hold. While others offer social democratic fantasy from a past that cannot return, we bring you instead the future, a magazine of politics and culture that knows what so many already intuitively recognize: capitalism can SIGN IN | COMMUNE
Commune is a popular magazine for a new era of revolution Follow @commune_mag Email address: COMBAT AND INCARCERATION The mythical and perhaps apocryphal prison fighting style, known as 52 Handblocks or Jailhouse Rock, attested to by Mike Tyson and popularized by Wu-Tang Clan, claims its origins in a variant of knocking and kicking adapted for the close-quarters combat of multi-person prison brawls. Photo by Frank McMains. THE SATANIC DEATH-CULT IS REAL Some might contend that all of us already secretly know. This is Tony Williams’s argument, in Hearths of Darkness: The Family in the American Horror Film, which shows popular horror flicks to be vehicles of mass anti-family desire.In the short horror film Ari Aster made in 2010 and submitted with his thesis—The Strange Thing About the Johnsons—the peaceful facade of an affluent African SIX STEPS TO ABOLISH THE FAMILY 1. Set up a protest kitchen. The best starting point to abolish the family is a massive insurrection. Come together with others at protest camps, street barricades, square occupations, seized factories, building takeovers, and other liberated zones. There, generate the means of collective survival, expanding the insurrection. THE AMERICAN COUNTERREVOLUTION While the American Revolution had a variety of motivations, the preservation of slavery and the business of slavery was a key issue in elites’ drive for independence. In response to this conservative mutiny, enslaved people led a simultaneous and often divergent revolution for emancipation, one that leaves us a truer legacy of a fight for
JUNKIE COMMUNISM
The mass socialist parties of Europe, seeking a politics of working-class respectability, had long been ambivalent towards the “lumpenproletariat,” “the underclass,” “the poor.”. If the dignity of work is the basis of socialism, junkies unable to maintain stable employment have THE AMERICAN ROOTS OF A RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY The American Roots of a Right-Wing Conspiracy. White-supremacist fearmongering about “cultural Marxism” continues to inspire violent attacks, from Norway to New Zealand. But the origins of the theory are American through and through. In 2010, the intellectual historian Martin Jay wrote a short and illuminating column for Salmagundi on the
101 NOTES ON THE LA TENANTS UNION 7. We don’t have a housing crisis. We have a tenants’ rights crisis. 8. In the LA Tenants Union, the subject of our work is not housing. It’s the tenant. 9. A tenant can be harassed, evicted, displaced, broke, undocumented, fed up, or organized. A tenant can be in kindergarten, can be a teacher, or a teacher on strike. SIGN IN | COMMUNE
Commune is a popular magazine for a new era of revolution Follow @commune_mag Email address: INTRODUCING COMMUNE
In the place of conservatism, we witness the rise of a white revanchism bent on rolling back the reforms of eras past until Jim Crow walks a landscape devoid of labor unions, until women are driven back to the kitchen, queer people back to the closet, trans people out of restrooms. On the left, we must admit, congruent nostalgias dominate.
BECOME UNREASONABLE
We should not have to debt-finance our lives. And if our survival is not seen as reasonable — we will become unreasonable. If the UC had been smarter, they would have settled with us already. But now there’s a COLA campaign on almost every UC campus. UC Davis is striking with us. UC Santa Barbara is striking with us. DYSTOPIAS NOW
Kim Stanley Robinson Kim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the international bestselling Mars trilogy, and more recently New York 2140, Aurora, Shaman, Green Earth, and 2312, which was a New York Times bestseller nominated for all seven of the major science fiction awards—a first for any book. JUNKIE COMMUNISM
The mass socialist parties of Europe, seeking a politics of working-class respectability, had long been ambivalent towards the “lumpenproletariat,” “the underclass,” “the poor.”. If the dignity of work is the basis of socialism, junkies unable to maintain stable employment have BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE GREEN NEW DEAL Miners in Chile, China, and Zambia will be digging in the earth for more than just the makings of fifty million solar panels and windmills, however, since the Green New Deal also proposes to rebuild the power grid in a more efficient form, to upgrade all buildings to the highest environmental standards, and lastly, to develop a low-carbon transportation infrastructure, based on electric THREE MONTHS INSIDE ALT-RIGHT NEW YORK An undercover antifascist descends through all nine circles of the alt-right inferno. During my three months inside New York’s alt-right, The Daily Stormer Book Club never got around to reading any books.Instead, they plotted their move off the internet and onto the streets, drank beer, and shot the shit. MAOISM AND THE AIR WE BREATHE Maoism and the Air We Breathe. Maoism by another name is everywhere on the left. Max Elbaum’s history helps us see it. Everyone is revisiting the late 60s now, though all too often just to double down on what they’d already thought they knew. As a sure antidote to that, I recommend that everyone read this book, the republication of which
CYBERGOTHIC ACID COMMUNISM NOW k-punk ends with the unfinished introduction to Acid Communism, the project that Fisher was working on when he died. It was an attempt to synthesize the lost future of the 1970s, the moment when the working class began to demand more than Fordist boredom and imagine wilder, freer lives, with a now-revived class politics. GOOD LUCK, YOUNG COMRADES! The historic home of Robert La Follette — storied opponent of US involvement in World War I and anti-imperialist presidential candidate in 1924 — Madison never quite lost the progressive, anti-interventionist disposition of the northern Midwest. It had professors exiled from Nazi Germany, scholarly critics of the Cold War mind, and, by 1967
COMMUNE | A POPULAR MAGAZINE FOR A NEW ERA OF REVOLUTIONSEE ISSUE 5THE YEAR IN STRUGGLES JOSHUA CLOVERHARLAN PRIDE CAITLIN MYERS Commune is a popular magazine for a new era of revolution. ABOUT | COMMUNE
About. Commune is a popular magazine for a new era of revolution. The old political orientations are dead: the center cannot hold. While others offer social democratic fantasy from a past that cannot return, we bring you instead the future, a magazine of politics and culture that knows what so many already intuitively recognize: capitalism can SIGN IN | COMMUNE
Commune is a popular magazine for a new era of revolution Follow @commune_mag Email address: COMBAT AND INCARCERATION The mythical and perhaps apocryphal prison fighting style, known as 52 Handblocks or Jailhouse Rock, attested to by Mike Tyson and popularized by Wu-Tang Clan, claims its origins in a variant of knocking and kicking adapted for the close-quarters combat of multi-person prison brawls. Photo by Frank McMains. THE SATANIC DEATH-CULT IS REAL Some might contend that all of us already secretly know. This is Tony Williams’s argument, in Hearths of Darkness: The Family in the American Horror Film, which shows popular horror flicks to be vehicles of mass anti-family desire.In the short horror film Ari Aster made in 2010 and submitted with his thesis—The Strange Thing About the Johnsons—the peaceful facade of an affluent African SIX STEPS TO ABOLISH THE FAMILY 1. Set up a protest kitchen. The best starting point to abolish the family is a massive insurrection. Come together with others at protest camps, street barricades, square occupations, seized factories, building takeovers, and other liberated zones. There, generate the means of collective survival, expanding the insurrection. THE AMERICAN COUNTERREVOLUTION While the American Revolution had a variety of motivations, the preservation of slavery and the business of slavery was a key issue in elites’ drive for independence. In response to this conservative mutiny, enslaved people led a simultaneous and often divergent revolution for emancipation, one that leaves us a truer legacy of a fight for
JUNKIE COMMUNISM
The mass socialist parties of Europe, seeking a politics of working-class respectability, had long been ambivalent towards the “lumpenproletariat,” “the underclass,” “the poor.”. If the dignity of work is the basis of socialism, junkies unable to maintain stable employment have THE AMERICAN ROOTS OF A RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY The American Roots of a Right-Wing Conspiracy. White-supremacist fearmongering about “cultural Marxism” continues to inspire violent attacks, from Norway to New Zealand. But the origins of the theory are American through and through. In 2010, the intellectual historian Martin Jay wrote a short and illuminating column for Salmagundi on the
101 NOTES ON THE LA TENANTS UNION 7. We don’t have a housing crisis. We have a tenants’ rights crisis. 8. In the LA Tenants Union, the subject of our work is not housing. It’s the tenant. 9. A tenant can be harassed, evicted, displaced, broke, undocumented, fed up, or organized. A tenant can be in kindergarten, can be a teacher, or a teacher on strike. COMMUNE | A POPULAR MAGAZINE FOR A NEW ERA OF REVOLUTIONSEE ISSUE 5THE YEAR IN STRUGGLES JOSHUA CLOVERHARLAN PRIDE CAITLIN MYERS Commune is a popular magazine for a new era of revolution. ABOUT | COMMUNE
About. Commune is a popular magazine for a new era of revolution. The old political orientations are dead: the center cannot hold. While others offer social democratic fantasy from a past that cannot return, we bring you instead the future, a magazine of politics and culture that knows what so many already intuitively recognize: capitalism can SIGN IN | COMMUNE
Commune is a popular magazine for a new era of revolution Follow @commune_mag Email address: COMBAT AND INCARCERATION The mythical and perhaps apocryphal prison fighting style, known as 52 Handblocks or Jailhouse Rock, attested to by Mike Tyson and popularized by Wu-Tang Clan, claims its origins in a variant of knocking and kicking adapted for the close-quarters combat of multi-person prison brawls. Photo by Frank McMains. THE SATANIC DEATH-CULT IS REAL Some might contend that all of us already secretly know. This is Tony Williams’s argument, in Hearths of Darkness: The Family in the American Horror Film, which shows popular horror flicks to be vehicles of mass anti-family desire.In the short horror film Ari Aster made in 2010 and submitted with his thesis—The Strange Thing About the Johnsons—the peaceful facade of an affluent African SIX STEPS TO ABOLISH THE FAMILY 1. Set up a protest kitchen. The best starting point to abolish the family is a massive insurrection. Come together with others at protest camps, street barricades, square occupations, seized factories, building takeovers, and other liberated zones. There, generate the means of collective survival, expanding the insurrection. THE AMERICAN COUNTERREVOLUTION While the American Revolution had a variety of motivations, the preservation of slavery and the business of slavery was a key issue in elites’ drive for independence. In response to this conservative mutiny, enslaved people led a simultaneous and often divergent revolution for emancipation, one that leaves us a truer legacy of a fight for
JUNKIE COMMUNISM
The mass socialist parties of Europe, seeking a politics of working-class respectability, had long been ambivalent towards the “lumpenproletariat,” “the underclass,” “the poor.”. If the dignity of work is the basis of socialism, junkies unable to maintain stable employment have THE AMERICAN ROOTS OF A RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY The American Roots of a Right-Wing Conspiracy. White-supremacist fearmongering about “cultural Marxism” continues to inspire violent attacks, from Norway to New Zealand. But the origins of the theory are American through and through. In 2010, the intellectual historian Martin Jay wrote a short and illuminating column for Salmagundi on the
101 NOTES ON THE LA TENANTS UNION 7. We don’t have a housing crisis. We have a tenants’ rights crisis. 8. In the LA Tenants Union, the subject of our work is not housing. It’s the tenant. 9. A tenant can be harassed, evicted, displaced, broke, undocumented, fed up, or organized. A tenant can be in kindergarten, can be a teacher, or a teacher on strike. SIGN IN | COMMUNE
Commune is a popular magazine for a new era of revolution Follow @commune_mag Email address: INTRODUCING COMMUNE
In the place of conservatism, we witness the rise of a white revanchism bent on rolling back the reforms of eras past until Jim Crow walks a landscape devoid of labor unions, until women are driven back to the kitchen, queer people back to the closet, trans people out of restrooms. On the left, we must admit, congruent nostalgias dominate.
BECOME UNREASONABLE
We should not have to debt-finance our lives. And if our survival is not seen as reasonable — we will become unreasonable. If the UC had been smarter, they would have settled with us already. But now there’s a COLA campaign on almost every UC campus. UC Davis is striking with us. UC Santa Barbara is striking with us. DYSTOPIAS NOW
Kim Stanley Robinson Kim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the international bestselling Mars trilogy, and more recently New York 2140, Aurora, Shaman, Green Earth, and 2312, which was a New York Times bestseller nominated for all seven of the major science fiction awards—a first for any book. JUNKIE COMMUNISM
The mass socialist parties of Europe, seeking a politics of working-class respectability, had long been ambivalent towards the “lumpenproletariat,” “the underclass,” “the poor.”. If the dignity of work is the basis of socialism, junkies unable to maintain stable employment have BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE GREEN NEW DEAL Miners in Chile, China, and Zambia will be digging in the earth for more than just the makings of fifty million solar panels and windmills, however, since the Green New Deal also proposes to rebuild the power grid in a more efficient form, to upgrade all buildings to the highest environmental standards, and lastly, to develop a low-carbon transportation infrastructure, based on electric THREE MONTHS INSIDE ALT-RIGHT NEW YORK An undercover antifascist descends through all nine circles of the alt-right inferno. During my three months inside New York’s alt-right, The Daily Stormer Book Club never got around to reading any books.Instead, they plotted their move off the internet and onto the streets, drank beer, and shot the shit. MAOISM AND THE AIR WE BREATHE Maoism and the Air We Breathe. Maoism by another name is everywhere on the left. Max Elbaum’s history helps us see it. Everyone is revisiting the late 60s now, though all too often just to double down on what they’d already thought they knew. As a sure antidote to that, I recommend that everyone read this book, the republication of which
CYBERGOTHIC ACID COMMUNISM NOW k-punk ends with the unfinished introduction to Acid Communism, the project that Fisher was working on when he died. It was an attempt to synthesize the lost future of the 1970s, the moment when the working class began to demand more than Fordist boredom and imagine wilder, freer lives, with a now-revived class politics. GOOD LUCK, YOUNG COMRADES! The historic home of Robert La Follette — storied opponent of US involvement in World War I and anti-imperialist presidential candidate in 1924 — Madison never quite lost the progressive, anti-interventionist disposition of the northern Midwest. It had professors exiled from Nazi Germany, scholarly critics of the Cold War mind, and, by 1967
COMMUNE | A POPULAR MAGAZINE FOR A NEW ERA OF REVOLUTIONSEE ISSUE 5THE YEAR IN STRUGGLES JOSHUA CLOVERHARLAN PRIDE CAITLIN MYERS Commune is a popular magazine for a new era of revolution. ABOUT | COMMUNE
About. Commune is a popular magazine for a new era of revolution. The old political orientations are dead: the center cannot hold. While others offer social democratic fantasy from a past that cannot return, we bring you instead the future, a magazine of politics and culture that knows what so many already intuitively recognize: capitalism can SIGN IN | COMMUNE
Commune is a popular magazine for a new era of revolution Follow @commune_mag Email address: COMBAT AND INCARCERATION The mythical and perhaps apocryphal prison fighting style, known as 52 Handblocks or Jailhouse Rock, attested to by Mike Tyson and popularized by Wu-Tang Clan, claims its origins in a variant of knocking and kicking adapted for the close-quarters combat of multi-person prison brawls. Photo by Frank McMains. THE SATANIC DEATH-CULT IS REAL Some might contend that all of us already secretly know. This is Tony Williams’s argument, in Hearths of Darkness: The Family in the American Horror Film, which shows popular horror flicks to be vehicles of mass anti-family desire.In the short horror film Ari Aster made in 2010 and submitted with his thesis—The Strange Thing About the Johnsons—the peaceful facade of an affluent African SIX STEPS TO ABOLISH THE FAMILY 1. Set up a protest kitchen. The best starting point to abolish the family is a massive insurrection. Come together with others at protest camps, street barricades, square occupations, seized factories, building takeovers, and other liberated zones. There, generate the means of collective survival, expanding the insurrection. THE AMERICAN COUNTERREVOLUTION While the American Revolution had a variety of motivations, the preservation of slavery and the business of slavery was a key issue in elites’ drive for independence. In response to this conservative mutiny, enslaved people led a simultaneous and often divergent revolution for emancipation, one that leaves us a truer legacy of a fight for
JUNKIE COMMUNISM
The mass socialist parties of Europe, seeking a politics of working-class respectability, had long been ambivalent towards the “lumpenproletariat,” “the underclass,” “the poor.”. If the dignity of work is the basis of socialism, junkies unable to maintain stable employment have THE AMERICAN ROOTS OF A RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY The American Roots of a Right-Wing Conspiracy. White-supremacist fearmongering about “cultural Marxism” continues to inspire violent attacks, from Norway to New Zealand. But the origins of the theory are American through and through. In 2010, the intellectual historian Martin Jay wrote a short and illuminating column for Salmagundi on the
101 NOTES ON THE LA TENANTS UNION 7. We don’t have a housing crisis. We have a tenants’ rights crisis. 8. In the LA Tenants Union, the subject of our work is not housing. It’s the tenant. 9. A tenant can be harassed, evicted, displaced, broke, undocumented, fed up, or organized. A tenant can be in kindergarten, can be a teacher, or a teacher on strike. COMMUNE | A POPULAR MAGAZINE FOR A NEW ERA OF REVOLUTIONSEE ISSUE 5THE YEAR IN STRUGGLES JOSHUA CLOVERHARLAN PRIDE CAITLIN MYERS Commune is a popular magazine for a new era of revolution. ABOUT | COMMUNE
About. Commune is a popular magazine for a new era of revolution. The old political orientations are dead: the center cannot hold. While others offer social democratic fantasy from a past that cannot return, we bring you instead the future, a magazine of politics and culture that knows what so many already intuitively recognize: capitalism can SIGN IN | COMMUNE
Commune is a popular magazine for a new era of revolution Follow @commune_mag Email address: COMBAT AND INCARCERATION The mythical and perhaps apocryphal prison fighting style, known as 52 Handblocks or Jailhouse Rock, attested to by Mike Tyson and popularized by Wu-Tang Clan, claims its origins in a variant of knocking and kicking adapted for the close-quarters combat of multi-person prison brawls. Photo by Frank McMains. THE SATANIC DEATH-CULT IS REAL Some might contend that all of us already secretly know. This is Tony Williams’s argument, in Hearths of Darkness: The Family in the American Horror Film, which shows popular horror flicks to be vehicles of mass anti-family desire.In the short horror film Ari Aster made in 2010 and submitted with his thesis—The Strange Thing About the Johnsons—the peaceful facade of an affluent African SIX STEPS TO ABOLISH THE FAMILY 1. Set up a protest kitchen. The best starting point to abolish the family is a massive insurrection. Come together with others at protest camps, street barricades, square occupations, seized factories, building takeovers, and other liberated zones. There, generate the means of collective survival, expanding the insurrection. THE AMERICAN COUNTERREVOLUTION While the American Revolution had a variety of motivations, the preservation of slavery and the business of slavery was a key issue in elites’ drive for independence. In response to this conservative mutiny, enslaved people led a simultaneous and often divergent revolution for emancipation, one that leaves us a truer legacy of a fight for
JUNKIE COMMUNISM
The mass socialist parties of Europe, seeking a politics of working-class respectability, had long been ambivalent towards the “lumpenproletariat,” “the underclass,” “the poor.”. If the dignity of work is the basis of socialism, junkies unable to maintain stable employment have THE AMERICAN ROOTS OF A RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY The American Roots of a Right-Wing Conspiracy. White-supremacist fearmongering about “cultural Marxism” continues to inspire violent attacks, from Norway to New Zealand. But the origins of the theory are American through and through. In 2010, the intellectual historian Martin Jay wrote a short and illuminating column for Salmagundi on the
101 NOTES ON THE LA TENANTS UNION 7. We don’t have a housing crisis. We have a tenants’ rights crisis. 8. In the LA Tenants Union, the subject of our work is not housing. It’s the tenant. 9. A tenant can be harassed, evicted, displaced, broke, undocumented, fed up, or organized. A tenant can be in kindergarten, can be a teacher, or a teacher on strike. SIGN IN | COMMUNE
Commune is a popular magazine for a new era of revolution Follow @commune_mag Email address: INTRODUCING COMMUNE
In the place of conservatism, we witness the rise of a white revanchism bent on rolling back the reforms of eras past until Jim Crow walks a landscape devoid of labor unions, until women are driven back to the kitchen, queer people back to the closet, trans people out of restrooms. On the left, we must admit, congruent nostalgias dominate.
BECOME UNREASONABLE
We should not have to debt-finance our lives. And if our survival is not seen as reasonable — we will become unreasonable. If the UC had been smarter, they would have settled with us already. But now there’s a COLA campaign on almost every UC campus. UC Davis is striking with us. UC Santa Barbara is striking with us. DYSTOPIAS NOW
Kim Stanley Robinson Kim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the international bestselling Mars trilogy, and more recently New York 2140, Aurora, Shaman, Green Earth, and 2312, which was a New York Times bestseller nominated for all seven of the major science fiction awards—a first for any book. JUNKIE COMMUNISM
The mass socialist parties of Europe, seeking a politics of working-class respectability, had long been ambivalent towards the “lumpenproletariat,” “the underclass,” “the poor.”. If the dignity of work is the basis of socialism, junkies unable to maintain stable employment have BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE GREEN NEW DEAL Miners in Chile, China, and Zambia will be digging in the earth for more than just the makings of fifty million solar panels and windmills, however, since the Green New Deal also proposes to rebuild the power grid in a more efficient form, to upgrade all buildings to the highest environmental standards, and lastly, to develop a low-carbon transportation infrastructure, based on electric THREE MONTHS INSIDE ALT-RIGHT NEW YORK An undercover antifascist descends through all nine circles of the alt-right inferno. During my three months inside New York’s alt-right, The Daily Stormer Book Club never got around to reading any books.Instead, they plotted their move off the internet and onto the streets, drank beer, and shot the shit. MAOISM AND THE AIR WE BREATHE Maoism and the Air We Breathe. Maoism by another name is everywhere on the left. Max Elbaum’s history helps us see it. Everyone is revisiting the late 60s now, though all too often just to double down on what they’d already thought they knew. As a sure antidote to that, I recommend that everyone read this book, the republication of which
CYBERGOTHIC ACID COMMUNISM NOW k-punk ends with the unfinished introduction to Acid Communism, the project that Fisher was working on when he died. It was an attempt to synthesize the lost future of the 1970s, the moment when the working class began to demand more than Fordist boredom and imagine wilder, freer lives, with a now-revived class politics. GOOD LUCK, YOUNG COMRADES! The historic home of Robert La Follette — storied opponent of US involvement in World War I and anti-imperialist presidential candidate in 1924 — Madison never quite lost the progressive, anti-interventionist disposition of the northern Midwest. It had professors exiled from Nazi Germany, scholarly critics of the Cold War mind, and, by 1967
COMMUNE | A POPULAR MAGAZINE FOR A NEW ERA OF REVOLUTIONSEE ISSUE 5THE YEAR IN STRUGGLES JOSHUA CLOVERHARLAN PRIDE CAITLIN MYERS Commune is a popular magazine for a new era of revolution. COMBAT AND INCARCERATION The mythical and perhaps apocryphal prison fighting style, known as 52 Handblocks or Jailhouse Rock, attested to by Mike Tyson and popularized by Wu-Tang Clan, claims its origins in a variant of knocking and kicking adapted for the close-quarters combat of multi-person prison brawls. Photo by Frank McMains. THE SATANIC DEATH-CULT IS REAL Some might contend that all of us already secretly know. This is Tony Williams’s argument, in Hearths of Darkness: The Family in the American Horror Film, which shows popular horror flicks to be vehicles of mass anti-family desire.In the short horror film Ari Aster made in 2010 and submitted with his thesis—The Strange Thing About the Johnsons—the peaceful facade of an affluent African WE'RE BEING PLAYED
Ngo is a slight and nebbish man, not known for a boisterous or loud presence. Slowly, he told Fox News viewers a harrowing story of being attacked by a vicious mob that was out for blood. He stuttered slightly and went at a snail’s pace, exemplifying the disorientation typical of a traumatic brain injury. JUNKIE COMMUNISM
The mass socialist parties of Europe, seeking a politics of working-class respectability, had long been ambivalent towards the “lumpenproletariat,” “the underclass,” “the poor.”. If the dignity of work is the basis of socialism, junkies unable to maintain stable employment have SIX STEPS TO ABOLISH THE FAMILY 1. Set up a protest kitchen. The best starting point to abolish the family is a massive insurrection. Come together with others at protest camps, street barricades, square occupations, seized factories, building takeovers, and other liberated zones. There, generate the means of collective survival, expanding the insurrection. THE AMERICAN ROOTS OF A RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY The American Roots of a Right-Wing Conspiracy. White-supremacist fearmongering about “cultural Marxism” continues to inspire violent attacks, from Norway to New Zealand. But the origins of the theory are American through and through. In 2010, the intellectual historian Martin Jay wrote a short and illuminating column for Salmagundi on the
DYSTOPIAS NOW
Dystopias Now. The end of the world is over. Now the real work begins. Dystopias are the flip side of utopias. Both of them express feelings about our shared future; utopias express our social hopes, dystopias our social fears. There are a lot of dystopias around these days, and this makes sense, because we have a lot of fears about the future. THE AMERICAN COUNTERREVOLUTION While the American Revolution had a variety of motivations, the preservation of slavery and the business of slavery was a key issue in elites’ drive for independence. In response to this conservative mutiny, enslaved people led a simultaneous and often divergent revolution for emancipation, one that leaves us a truer legacy of a fight for
GOOD LUCK, YOUNG COMRADES! The historic home of Robert La Follette — storied opponent of US involvement in World War I and anti-imperialist presidential candidate in 1924 — Madison never quite lost the progressive, anti-interventionist disposition of the northern Midwest. It had professors exiled from Nazi Germany, scholarly critics of the Cold War mind, and, by 1967
COMMUNE | A POPULAR MAGAZINE FOR A NEW ERA OF REVOLUTIONSEE ISSUE 5THE YEAR IN STRUGGLES JOSHUA CLOVERHARLAN PRIDE CAITLIN MYERS Commune is a popular magazine for a new era of revolution. COMBAT AND INCARCERATION The mythical and perhaps apocryphal prison fighting style, known as 52 Handblocks or Jailhouse Rock, attested to by Mike Tyson and popularized by Wu-Tang Clan, claims its origins in a variant of knocking and kicking adapted for the close-quarters combat of multi-person prison brawls. Photo by Frank McMains. THE SATANIC DEATH-CULT IS REAL Some might contend that all of us already secretly know. This is Tony Williams’s argument, in Hearths of Darkness: The Family in the American Horror Film, which shows popular horror flicks to be vehicles of mass anti-family desire.In the short horror film Ari Aster made in 2010 and submitted with his thesis—The Strange Thing About the Johnsons—the peaceful facade of an affluent African WE'RE BEING PLAYED
Ngo is a slight and nebbish man, not known for a boisterous or loud presence. Slowly, he told Fox News viewers a harrowing story of being attacked by a vicious mob that was out for blood. He stuttered slightly and went at a snail’s pace, exemplifying the disorientation typical of a traumatic brain injury. JUNKIE COMMUNISM
The mass socialist parties of Europe, seeking a politics of working-class respectability, had long been ambivalent towards the “lumpenproletariat,” “the underclass,” “the poor.”. If the dignity of work is the basis of socialism, junkies unable to maintain stable employment have SIX STEPS TO ABOLISH THE FAMILY 1. Set up a protest kitchen. The best starting point to abolish the family is a massive insurrection. Come together with others at protest camps, street barricades, square occupations, seized factories, building takeovers, and other liberated zones. There, generate the means of collective survival, expanding the insurrection. THE AMERICAN ROOTS OF A RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY The American Roots of a Right-Wing Conspiracy. White-supremacist fearmongering about “cultural Marxism” continues to inspire violent attacks, from Norway to New Zealand. But the origins of the theory are American through and through. In 2010, the intellectual historian Martin Jay wrote a short and illuminating column for Salmagundi on the
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Dystopias Now. The end of the world is over. Now the real work begins. Dystopias are the flip side of utopias. Both of them express feelings about our shared future; utopias express our social hopes, dystopias our social fears. There are a lot of dystopias around these days, and this makes sense, because we have a lot of fears about the future. THE AMERICAN COUNTERREVOLUTION While the American Revolution had a variety of motivations, the preservation of slavery and the business of slavery was a key issue in elites’ drive for independence. In response to this conservative mutiny, enslaved people led a simultaneous and often divergent revolution for emancipation, one that leaves us a truer legacy of a fight for
GOOD LUCK, YOUNG COMRADES! The historic home of Robert La Follette — storied opponent of US involvement in World War I and anti-imperialist presidential candidate in 1924 — Madison never quite lost the progressive, anti-interventionist disposition of the northern Midwest. It had professors exiled from Nazi Germany, scholarly critics of the Cold War mind, and, by 1967
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About. Commune is a popular magazine for a new era of revolution. The old political orientations are dead: the center cannot hold. While others offer social democratic fantasy from a past that cannot return, we bring you instead the future, a magazine of politics and culture that knows what so many already intuitively recognize: capitalism can THE AMERICAN COUNTERREVOLUTION While the American Revolution had a variety of motivations, the preservation of slavery and the business of slavery was a key issue in elites’ drive for independence. In response to this conservative mutiny, enslaved people led a simultaneous and often divergent revolution for emancipation, one that leaves us a truer legacy of a fight for
AFTER THE QUARANTINE, THE FLOOD A woman in Italy was quarantined with her husband’s dead body for thirty hours. Airlines are flying nearly empty planes in order to protect their valuable routes and time slots. Prisoners in New York are forced to make a hundred thousand gallons of hand sanitizer per week, but they are not permitted to use it themselves because of its alcohol
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Kim Stanley Robinson Kim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the international bestselling Mars trilogy, and more recently New York 2140, Aurora, Shaman, Green Earth, and 2312, which was a New York Times bestseller nominated for all seven of the major science fiction awards—a first for any book. WOLF AGE | COMMUNE
In the world of neo-fascist esoterica, you might hear the term “Wolf Age” bandied about. This is supposedly the period we are in. Wolf Age comes from the Odinic way of saying “Kali Yuga”, a term appropriated by fascists from the Vedic prophecies. Kali Yuga is the last of four ages and is the stage when humanity is at its lowest form SYRIA FROM REVOLUTION TO CIVIL WAR The exact origins of the Syrian revolution are highly contested, with some dating it to March 15 and others to March 18. On March 15, a group of thirteen intellectuals organized a small protest in the old city market of Damascus. “God, Syria, freedom,” they chanted, replacing “Bashar” with “freedom” in the official chant “God THE HIGH RISE AND THE HOLLOW Within a decade, it would become clear that country’s main markets were also in the suburbs. Lacking the easy opposition of the high rise and the hollow, country has since then scrambled to find new locations for its old virtues, setting more and more songs, for example, at BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE GREEN NEW DEAL Miners in Chile, China, and Zambia will be digging in the earth for more than just the makings of fifty million solar panels and windmills, however, since the Green New Deal also proposes to rebuild the power grid in a more efficient form, to upgrade all buildings to the highest environmental standards, and lastly, to develop a low-carbon transportation infrastructure, based on electric GOOD LUCK, YOUNG COMRADES! The historic home of Robert La Follette — storied opponent of US involvement in World War I and anti-imperialist presidential candidate in 1924 — Madison never quite lost the progressive, anti-interventionist disposition of the northern Midwest. It had professors exiled from Nazi Germany, scholarly critics of the Cold War mind, and, by 1967
THREE MONTHS INSIDE ALT-RIGHT NEW YORK An undercover antifascist descends through all nine circles of the alt-right inferno. During my three months inside New York’s alt-right, The Daily Stormer Book Club never got around to reading any books.Instead, they plotted their move off the internet and onto the streets, drank beer, and shot the shit. COMMUNE | A POPULAR MAGAZINE FOR A NEW ERA OF REVOLUTIONSEE ISSUE 5THE YEAR IN STRUGGLES JOSHUA CLOVERHARLAN PRIDE CAITLIN MYERS Commune is a popular magazine for a new era of revolution. ABOUT | COMMUNE
About. Commune is a popular magazine for a new era of revolution. The old political orientations are dead: the center cannot hold. While others offer social democratic fantasy from a past that cannot return, we bring you instead the future, a magazine of politics and culture that knows what so many already intuitively recognize: capitalism can SIGN IN | COMMUNE
Commune is a popular magazine for a new era of revolution Follow @commune_mag Email address: THE SATANIC DEATH-CULT IS REAL Some might contend that all of us already secretly know. This is Tony Williams’s argument, in Hearths of Darkness: The Family in the American Horror Film, which shows popular horror flicks to be vehicles of mass anti-family desire.In the short horror film Ari Aster made in 2010 and submitted with his thesis—The Strange Thing About the Johnsons—the peaceful facade of an affluent African THE AMERICAN ROOTS OF A RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY The American Roots of a Right-Wing Conspiracy. White-supremacist fearmongering about “cultural Marxism” continues to inspire violent attacks, from Norway to New Zealand. But the origins of the theory are American through and through. In 2010, the intellectual historian Martin Jay wrote a short and illuminating column for Salmagundi on the
THE AMERICAN COUNTERREVOLUTION While the American Revolution had a variety of motivations, the preservation of slavery and the business of slavery was a key issue in elites’ drive for independence. In response to this conservative mutiny, enslaved people led a simultaneous and often divergent revolution for emancipation, one that leaves us a truer legacy of a fight for
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Ngo is a slight and nebbish man, not known for a boisterous or loud presence. Slowly, he told Fox News viewers a harrowing story of being attacked by a vicious mob that was out for blood. He stuttered slightly and went at a snail’s pace, exemplifying the disorientation typical of a traumatic brain injury. JUNKIE COMMUNISM
The mass socialist parties of Europe, seeking a politics of working-class respectability, had long been ambivalent towards the “lumpenproletariat,” “the underclass,” “the poor.”. If the dignity of work is the basis of socialism, junkies unable to maintain stable employment have SIX STEPS TO ABOLISH THE FAMILY 1. Set up a protest kitchen. The best starting point to abolish the family is a massive insurrection. Come together with others at protest camps, street barricades, square occupations, seized factories, building takeovers, and other liberated zones. There, generate the means of collective survival, expanding the insurrection. MAOISM AND THE AIR WE BREATHE Maoism and the Air We Breathe. Maoism by another name is everywhere on the left. Max Elbaum’s history helps us see it. Everyone is revisiting the late 60s now, though all too often just to double down on what they’d already thought they knew. As a sure antidote to that, I recommend that everyone read this book, the republication of which
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About. Commune is a popular magazine for a new era of revolution. The old political orientations are dead: the center cannot hold. While others offer social democratic fantasy from a past that cannot return, we bring you instead the future, a magazine of politics and culture that knows what so many already intuitively recognize: capitalism can SIGN IN | COMMUNE
Commune is a popular magazine for a new era of revolution Follow @commune_mag Email address: THE SATANIC DEATH-CULT IS REAL Some might contend that all of us already secretly know. This is Tony Williams’s argument, in Hearths of Darkness: The Family in the American Horror Film, which shows popular horror flicks to be vehicles of mass anti-family desire.In the short horror film Ari Aster made in 2010 and submitted with his thesis—The Strange Thing About the Johnsons—the peaceful facade of an affluent African THE AMERICAN ROOTS OF A RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY The American Roots of a Right-Wing Conspiracy. White-supremacist fearmongering about “cultural Marxism” continues to inspire violent attacks, from Norway to New Zealand. But the origins of the theory are American through and through. In 2010, the intellectual historian Martin Jay wrote a short and illuminating column for Salmagundi on the
THE AMERICAN COUNTERREVOLUTION While the American Revolution had a variety of motivations, the preservation of slavery and the business of slavery was a key issue in elites’ drive for independence. In response to this conservative mutiny, enslaved people led a simultaneous and often divergent revolution for emancipation, one that leaves us a truer legacy of a fight for
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Ngo is a slight and nebbish man, not known for a boisterous or loud presence. Slowly, he told Fox News viewers a harrowing story of being attacked by a vicious mob that was out for blood. He stuttered slightly and went at a snail’s pace, exemplifying the disorientation typical of a traumatic brain injury. JUNKIE COMMUNISM
The mass socialist parties of Europe, seeking a politics of working-class respectability, had long been ambivalent towards the “lumpenproletariat,” “the underclass,” “the poor.”. If the dignity of work is the basis of socialism, junkies unable to maintain stable employment have SIX STEPS TO ABOLISH THE FAMILY 1. Set up a protest kitchen. The best starting point to abolish the family is a massive insurrection. Come together with others at protest camps, street barricades, square occupations, seized factories, building takeovers, and other liberated zones. There, generate the means of collective survival, expanding the insurrection. MAOISM AND THE AIR WE BREATHE Maoism and the Air We Breathe. Maoism by another name is everywhere on the left. Max Elbaum’s history helps us see it. Everyone is revisiting the late 60s now, though all too often just to double down on what they’d already thought they knew. As a sure antidote to that, I recommend that everyone read this book, the republication of which
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Ngo is a slight and nebbish man, not known for a boisterous or loud presence. Slowly, he told Fox News viewers a harrowing story of being attacked by a vicious mob that was out for blood. He stuttered slightly and went at a snail’s pace, exemplifying the disorientation typical of a traumatic brain injury. JUNKIE COMMUNISM
The mass socialist parties of Europe, seeking a politics of working-class respectability, had long been ambivalent towards the “lumpenproletariat,” “the underclass,” “the poor.”. If the dignity of work is the basis of socialism, junkies unable to maintain stable employment have BECOME UNREASONABLE
We should not have to debt-finance our lives. And if our survival is not seen as reasonable — we will become unreasonable. If the UC had been smarter, they would have settled with us already. But now there’s a COLA campaign on almost every UC campus. UC Davis is striking with us. UC Santa Barbara is striking with us. DYSTOPIAS NOW
Dystopias Now. The end of the world is over. Now the real work begins. Dystopias are the flip side of utopias. Both of them express feelings about our shared future; utopias express our social hopes, dystopias our social fears. There are a lot of dystopias around these days, and this makes sense, because we have a lot of fears about the future. 101 NOTES ON THE LA TENANTS UNION 7. We don’t have a housing crisis. We have a tenants’ rights crisis. 8. In the LA Tenants Union, the subject of our work is not housing. It’s the tenant. 9. A tenant can be harassed, evicted, displaced, broke, undocumented, fed up, or organized. A tenant can be in kindergarten, can be a teacher, or a teacher on strike. CYBERGOTHIC ACID COMMUNISM NOW k-punk ends with the unfinished introduction to Acid Communism, the project that Fisher was working on when he died. It was an attempt to synthesize the lost future of the 1970s, the moment when the working class began to demand more than Fordist boredom and imagine wilder, freer lives, with a now-revived class politics. INTERSEX LIBERATION
In most cases, Intersex Genital Mutilation (IGM) is not mandated actively by national governments. What is more common is the expectation that births be registered with the relevant authorities, and that the “sex” (either male or female) be declared. In this context, having an intersex child raised openly as such amounts to administrative
"THE COUNTER-INSURRECTION IS FAILING" But presently, the real counter-insurrection we face is in the way the demos are being policed, the way the state tries (unsuccessfully) to split the demo into “violent and nonviolent” protesters, and convince people to restore the normal leftist rituals of protest. But clearly the counter-insurrection is failing, as the only violence that Current Issue
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