Tag: Anarchism
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Remember Omar Aziz: Reviewing The Syrian Revolution Reader
Since the so-called “End of History,” (at the very least), many people (especially those who look like me) on Turtle Island have been living in a general state of “colonial unknowing” and a fake sense that their immediate world is extraordinary safe and peaceful (at least domestically). I have a hunch that this bubble of…
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Thinking Beyond Elections: A Review of Zoe Baker’s Means and Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States
Hark! Elections darken the fragile horizon. At least here in CanMerica they do. A few months ago I’d begun to descend into that cold fire of anxiety that curdles my flesh and transforms me into a being of the purest ranker and dyspepsia. My thoughts plummeted inwards as the word I was cradling in my…
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Fuck “Sustainable Development Goals,” have y’all ever heard of Communism?: Reviewing Kōhei Saitō’s Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto
It’s hard to overstate the significance of a degrowth COMMUNIST MANIFESTO selling so many copies in Japan alone and the ensuing pseudo-celebrity of it’s author, though of course as many are quick to remark, purchasing a book and agreeing with its contents, let alone enacting it, are not quite the same thing. Nonetheless, the left…