Anton Woronczuk: Until We Confront Capitalism, We Will Not Solve the Climate Crisis
International climate negotiations have failed to curb runaway greenhouse gas emissions since the first UN treaty on emission reductions was adopted in 1992. Consumer-focused solutions to climate change such as eating less meat or reducing food mileage, though important, simply won’t be enough to address the systemic nature of the crisis. So what needs to […]
Willamette Week, “Domino’s Pizza Ripped Off Portland Anarchists’ Scheme to Fill Potholes. The Anarchists Aren’t Impressed.”
A corporate branding campaign is the sincerest form of flattery. Earlier this week, Domino’s Pizza announced its plans to help improve the nation’s infrastructure by filling in potholes. The company’s Paving for Pizza grants are currently being doled out to various U.S. cities as a way to “save your good pizza from these bad roads.” […]
New Statesman, “US anarchist David Graeber’s crusade against the rise of “bullshit jobs””
In 2013, the American anthropologist David Graeber began to notice a strange phenomenon. “I kept running into people at parties who didn’t want to tell you what they did [for work],” he recalled when we met. Others would say “we just make up the numbers” or “I can do my job in two hours a […]
The New York Times, “Anarchists Fill Services Void Left by Faltering Greek Governance”
“People trust us because we don’t use the people as customers or voters,” Mr. Sagris said. “Every failure of the system proves the idea of the anarchists to be true.” Continue Reading
A.V. Club, “Girlboss held back by a smudged résumé”
#Girlboss is alternately a self-help text that gives aspiring female entrepreneurs advice on how to write a cover letter and the story of how Amoruso bucked convention to go from anarchist thief to CEO. Continue Reading
The Guardian, “Zaha Hadid’s successor: scrap art schools, privatise cities and bin social housing”
Let his ideas be thrashed out and interrogated, but I’m inclined to agree with Noam Chomsky’s take on anarcho-capitalism: “A sick joke, perhaps worth some moments in an academic seminar … but nowhere else.” It is a doctrine, Chomsky concludes, that “if ever implemented, would lead to forms of tyranny and oppression that have few […]
Paul Mason: The end of capitalism has begun
The end of capitalism has begun Paul Mason, The Guardian, July 17, 2015 “Capitalism, it turns out, will not be abolished by forced-march techniques. It will be abolished by creating something more dynamic that exists, at first, almost unseen within the old system, but which will break through, reshaping the economy around new values and […]
Salon, “Walmart is a cultural sickness: How the American workplace is enriching the wealthy — and destroying everyone else,” June 2, 2015
Walmart is a cultural sickness: How the American workplace is enriching the wealthy — and destroying everyone else by KYLE SCHMIDLIN, Salon, June 2, 2015 There’s also a compelling argument, articulated brilliantly in a 2013 essay by author and activist David Graeber, that many white-collar and service sector jobs have no justifiable reason to exist. Says Graeber: “It’s […]
Cryptocoins News, “Your Ideas Don’t Matter to Bitcoin,” May 31, 2015
Your Ideas Don’t Matter to Bitcoin by Hiro Nakamura, Cryptocoins News, May 31, 2015 In fact, if you’re reading this, you are very unlikely a capitalist. A capitalist is not someone who believes in capitalism. A capitalist is someone who controls the means of production. A person who supports capitalism but does not control the […]
Vice, “On the Lam with Bank Robber Enric Duran,” April 7, 2015
On the Lam with Bank Robber Enric Duran by Nathan Schneider, Vice, April 7, 2015 Others move to Calafou, a “postcapitalist ecoindustrial colony” in the ruins of a century-old factory town, which Duran and a few others purchased after he found it for sale on the internet. (Further details about Calafou cannot appear here because […]