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Sewer Socialist
28th August 2016, 19:41
So, I was going to go hand out literature at the local "rock against the tpp" show, with music like Anti-Flag and Danbert Norbacon of Chumbawamba. i got the date wrong, so i realized too late it had already happened.

Anyway, I realize there were probably tons of young kids, many of whom had never had a job, but still were interested in radical politics. Probably many others only worked a part-time job here and there, going to high school full time. (like me - at sixteen, i worked a couple days a week; the primary oppression i faced was school and the family. My job made me feel grown up, so radical literature about work was interesting, but i might have been more interested in queer liberation, critiques of daily life, abolition of the family, maybe something about how schools operate as a function of bourgeois society, the police, probably youth of color would find materials about racism more relevant, etc.

the material at prole.info is pretty good, but it's mostly about work. is there anything like that more relevant to young teenagers?

The Garbage Disposal Unit
31st August 2016, 23:25
Life Without Law (http://www.tangledwilderness.org/life-without-law/) is defs my favourite "Anarchy 101" type 'zine. It avoids CrimethInc. romantic poetry nonsense, and isn't nearly so narrow as many introductory pieces that are interested in promoting their particular "brand".

For those who are poetically inclined, I know many people who read "The Coming Insurrection" as teens and fucking loved it.

For more familiarly "Communist" texts . . . I dunno.

willowtooth
1st September 2016, 02:49
Sell the communist manifesto for 5 bucks a pop

Wessex Way Monster
10th September 2016, 09:14
Sell the communist manifesto for 5 bucks a pop
Thats a day long bus ride per book, students ain't gonna fuck with that.

Sea
13th September 2016, 03:05
Thats a day long bus ride per book, students ain't gonna fuck with that.How about this: Hire some of the students to print copies of the manifesto for $2 each, then sell it for $4.

willowtooth
13th September 2016, 10:40
How about this: Hire some of the students to print copies of the manifesto for $2 each, then sell it for $4.
better yet hire them as interns and pay them with life experience

The Garbage Disposal Unit
13th September 2016, 16:51
Oh! And anything from prole.info (http://www.prole.info) is probably a good bet!!!

Hope of Jurgis
16th September 2016, 04:10
How To Fire Your Boss has good stuff in it for those who are already interested in leftism but don't have a clue about practice. (I'd post a link but I don't have the ability yet.)

Sewer Socialist
16th September 2016, 05:23
Oh! And anything from prole.info (http://www.prole.info) is probably a good bet!!! [p]Yeah, I like their format, and I actually printed some of their illustrated zines, but I was wondering if there was anything that wasn't so focused on wage-labor as work specifically, for kids who hadn't experienced work in the same way that you or I have, but who have still experienced years of capitalist society - school, family, etc.Maybe I should try to make something new in that vein.But I feel like I don't have the best understanding - idk if I can explain it so well.On that note, has much been written about the "social factory" in english?Everything I can find is in Italian. I've read some Federici on the subject, but she focuses on reproductive labor specifically rather than the social factory more generally. Or is there something similar in English - something introductory would be best...?Life Community Politics War isn't bad, and talks about things beyond work, but I just feel... like this could all be connected more clearly?

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Wessex Way Monster
16th September 2016, 06:20
I think the best agitation materials for teens is drugs cigs and booze. mainly the cigs tho.

Hope of Jurgis
16th September 2016, 16:51
If you want something that speaks to the exploitation of students I suggest The Student As N*gger by Jerry Farber. It's a great book and I think it exists in pamphlet form somewhere.