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Lost in Libcom
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.
i dont think its that hard to navigate. i dont follow the forums too often but their library is so sick.
Everywhere it is the police who do the whipping and the one in rags who gets whipped. And then the people who sit smugly at their well-laden tables are surprised when someone rocks the table, overturns it, and shatters everything to fragments.
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...
Critique of the Gotha Programme, Pt IV: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/ch04.htm
No War but the Class War
Destroy All Nations
Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC): "A man whose life has been dishonorable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death."
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)
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Libcom is like meh, their layout looks like Ikea + apple store. .
[FONT="Courier New"] “We stand for organized terror - this should be frankly admitted. Terror is an absolute necessity during times of revolution. Our aim is to fight against the enemies of the Revolution and of the new order of life. ”
― Felix Dzerzhinsky [/FONT]
لا شيء يمكن وقف محاكم التفتيش للثورة
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.
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.
Critique of the Gotha Programme, Pt IV: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/ch04.htm
No War but the Class War
Destroy All Nations
Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC): "A man whose life has been dishonorable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death."
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....
To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget
Arundhati Roy
Lenina Rosenweg is a glorious beacon of light
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.
Everywhere it is the police who do the whipping and the one in rags who gets whipped. And then the people who sit smugly at their well-laden tables are surprised when someone rocks the table, overturns it, and shatters everything to fragments.
Dull grey is much better
If you know what you're looking for, you can just Google it with the "site:" parameter. Here is an example.
I think, thus I disagree. | Chairperson of a Socialist Party branchMarxist Internet Archive | Communistisch Platform
Working class independence - Internationalism - Democracy
Educate - Agitate - Organise
Indeed, it is.
[FONT="Courier New"] “We stand for organized terror - this should be frankly admitted. Terror is an absolute necessity during times of revolution. Our aim is to fight against the enemies of the Revolution and of the new order of life. ”
― Felix Dzerzhinsky [/FONT]
لا شيء يمكن وقف محاكم التفتيش للثورة
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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