Lost in Libcom

[Minima]

Does anyone know their way around libcom? know any good users, article writers, etc. it's a good site but it's a little difficult to keep track of and navigate.

[Dr Doom]

i dont think its that hard to navigate. i dont follow the forums too often but their library is so sick.

[Blake's Baby]

Yes I know my way around LibCom. Generally, I don't find it so hard to navigate. Are there any particular problems you're having?

Recommendations for good posters and article writers are a bit difficult, as it very much depends what you're after. Even though the 'gene pool' is much more tightly defined on LibCom - it's Anarchists, anarcho-syndicalists, council communists and left-communists, for the vast majority of the posters, the arguments can be just as vicious as here; and anyway, I'm bound to be biased towards those defending Left Communist positions...

[Minima]

I lurk their forums and they have a pretty good sense of humor, which i think is really healthy. Libcom seems more like uk while revleft is more like an american forum where people troll the shit out of each other and people who like getting into emotional arguments over really pointless theoretical or historical minutiae.

sometimes i come across like the most brilliant articulations of anarchist or whatever position that i've never read in any book, and then it's like desert for another few days when they are calling each other cocks etc. and it's actually a pain in the ass to find those really good posts that are totally not organized by how articulate or serious they are in a thread, but by date (obviously)

[Rafiq]

Libcom is like meh, their layout looks like Ikea + apple store. .

[Blake's Baby]

I lurk their forums and they have a pretty good sense of humor, which i think is really healthy. Libcom seems more like uk while revleft is more like an american forum...

It's think it's more that LibCom is more an anarchist forum where Council Communists and impossiblists are tolerantly tolerated, Left-Comms are just about tolerated, while Trotskyists, Stalinists and other 'Leninist' 'authoritarian' types are pretty much totally excluded ... the fact that most of RevLeft's Stalinists seem to live in the US I think is unrelated. There are lots of good posters from the US on LibCom, who don't post on here, because the majority of them are anarcho-syndicalists and I think they feel that LibCom is more to their taste than RevLeft.


... where people troll the shit out of each other and people who like getting into emotional arguments over really pointless theoretical or historical minutiae...

To be honest you could be talking about either forum here. Though on the whole I go to LibCom to calm down if I've been on here too long.

They're different things. LibCom doesn't have a 'pan-leftist' mission-statement. It's the forum of Libertarian Communism. RevLeft does, it's the forum for 'Revolutionary Leftists', even those of us who believe that 'the Left' is not revolutionary.

[Lenina Rosenweg]

I lurk on Libcom sometimes, I find that while some of the articles and discussions are fascinating, the site is hard to navigate and its hard to find the gold under the junk.

Aufheben, which as far as I can tell is a UK autonomist group in Brighton, has the rough draft of their yearly hard copy journal on Libcom. The are often typos and awkward sentences but their stuff is fascinating to read

http://libcom.org/tags/aufheben

The articles on Hillel Tiktin and his analysis of the former Soviet Union and another article on indentity politics, Eurocommunism and New Labour are fascinating. Unfortunately I can't find them which shows a big problem with Libcom.Look though aufheben for the past few years.

There is a section somewhere which has all the juicy gossip on the ICC, including a story where a member was expelled for being a Freemason and trying to get other comrades to become Freemasons.(The ICC deserves credit for publicly discussing this)Again, I don't know how to find this.

Somewhere there's a fascinating discussion on the German philosopher Duerr and Ernst Bloch. I took notes on this.Again, I can't tell you where to find this.

Libcom is a great resource, but then hey, its run by anarchists....

[Dr Doom]

There is a section somewhere which has all the juicy gossip on the ICC, including a story where a member was expelled for being a Freemason and trying to get other comrades to become Freemasons.(The ICC deserves credit for publicly discussing this)Again, I don't know how to find this.


h ttp://libcom.org/forums/thought/man-running-down-street-stabbing-himself-icc-21042006

;) some insane shit

i cant post links so i had to do a space after the h in the http thing if that makes sense. pretty easy to find though.

[Ballyfornia]

their layout looks like Ikea + apple store. .

Dull grey is much better

[Q]

... the site is hard to navigate and its hard to find the gold under the junk.

... Unfortunately I can't find them which shows a big problem with Libcom.Look though aufheben for the past few years.

... Again, I don't know how to find this.

... Again, I can't tell you where to find this.

If you know what you're looking for, you can just Google it with the "site:" parameter. Here is an example (https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Alibcom.org%20%22hillel%20ticktin%22).

[Rafiq]

Dull grey is much better

Indeed, it is.

[Искра]

Libcom is good site with good forum. Discusions there on certain issues much better than here, because there are no tankies and idiotic Hoxhaists... but then again there's a bunch of lifestyle anarchists and simmilar types.

On ICC discussions there... well I've read them all long time ago and only good thing I've learned is that Alf likes KRS-1 better than Ice T

So...

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