Struggle, withdrawal, alienation, sabotage, lines of flight from the capitalist system of domination. Autonomy is the independence of social time from the temporality of capitalism. – Franco "Bifo" Berardi Autonomist Marxism was first developed in Italy during the 1960s and 1970s, originating from Operaismo [lit. workerism], a core tenet of the
(This is a repost from Jacob Winter's Medium page. Visit the original article here: https://medium.com/@jacobwntr/internationalism-at-a-cruise-missiles-point-mason-monbiot-and-the-left-s-love-affair-with-nato-a6348efd8eb6) “In war, truth is the first casualty.” Aeschylus (525 BC — 456 BC) Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has thrown the British left for something of a loop. Although those in support
(This is a republishing of Jacob Winter's article from his personal Medium page. Read the original article here: https://medium.com/@jacobwntr/bone-idle-a-review-of-bash-the-rich-9df72736f9e6) The greatest irony about Ian Bone’s 2006 autobiography Bash the Rich is that the blurb specifically states that “This is no dry tome destined to gather
(This is a repost from Jacob Winter's Medium page. Visit the original article here: https://medium.com/@jacobwntr/against-the-new-malthusians-1d2480f5df7d) The environmental movement today has become infected by a new form of ecological austerity, a vicious and regressive ideology that would sacrifice all human progress to save the planet, even when