Tag: book review
Nicolai J. Foss and Peter G. Klein. Why Managers Matter: The Perils of the Bossless Company (New York: Hachette Group, 2022). Why Managers Matter is a response to the excessive and sometimes gush celebration of flattened hierarchies among management faddists like 90s management fad Tom Peters and his successors. Ironically, this book reminds me of…
Par William Gillis. Article original : Anti-Engels (or Anti-Anti-Duhring Aktion), 5 novembre 2021. Traduction français par Brerhare. Ces dernières années ont vue la résurrection d’une scolastique marxisante de Grand Homme de l’Histoire qui se concentre sur certains Textes Fondamentaux (accessibles) de prétendus génies, et qui rejette tous les trucs compliqués qui sont arrivés depuis leur publication,…
Di Dawie Coetzee. Originale: “None of the Above”: A Book Review of The Lie of 1652 del 17 ottobre 2022. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. In Sudafrica le parole assumono un significato diverso. La sovrapposizione di particolari significati socio-politici, eredità del dispotismo razziale, ha oscurato, fino a perderlo del tutto, il significato ordinario con cui certe…
Let’s be clear from the outset: Conflict Is Not Abuse is not even remotely the same thing as the sentiment or thesis that “conflict is not abuse.” Much of the success Sarah Schulman’s book has seen is the result of people wanting a defense of the latter thesis and assuming her appropriation of the pre-existing…
Oleh: Jordan Jardine. Teks aslinya berjudul “Muammar Gaddafi’s Green Book: The Good, The Bad, and The Weird.” Diterjemahkan oleh Iman Amirullah. Catatan: Diperbarui dengan beberapa penambahan pada 9/4/22. Muammar Gaddafi adalah, merupakan, dan akan selalu menjadi tokoh kontroversial. Meskipun kebangkitannya dari pengembara Badui hingga menjadi penguasa Libya sangat mengesankan, banyak hal yang dia lakukan saat…
Words have different meanings in South Africa. The overlay of specific socio-political senses arising out of a legacy of racial authoritarianism has so overshadowed the ordinary senses in which common words are used elsewhere in the world, that words are as good as lost. Thus location as denoting the “township,” the companion or shadow town…
De William Gillis. Título original: From Stirner to Mussolini, del 28 de marzo de 2022. Traducción al español por Vince Cerberus. Reseña: Los orígenes anarquista-individualistas del fascismo italiano En 1910, Luigi Fabbri y Armando Borghi secuestraron a una mujer anarquista que había avergonzado a su amigo por haberse divorciado de él. Juntos, la obligaron a…
De Joseph Parampathu. Artículo original: Review: From Urbanization to Cities, del 28 de febrero 2022. Traducción española de Kesabel Babe. Reseña de From Urbanization to Cities: The Politics of Democratic Municipalism (La política del municipalismo democrático) de Murray Bookchin. From Urbanization to Cities The Politics of Democratic Municipalism by Murray Bookchin (AK Press, 2021). En…
Review: The Anarchist-Individualist Origins of Italian Fascism In 1910 Luigi Fabbri and Armando Borghi abducted an anarchist woman who had shamed their friend by divorcing him. Together, they forced her into a gynecological exam so the doctor could publicly pronounce her deformed and incapable of sex. All three were prominent leaders in the Italian anarchist…
Okumak üzere olduğunuz makale, Jordan Jardine tarafından kaleme alınmış ve Faruk Pak tarafından Türkçe ’ye çevrilmiştir. 9 Mart 2022 tarihinde “Muammar Gaddafi’s Green Book: The Good, The Bad, and The Weird” başlığı altında yayınlanmıştır. Muammer Kaddafi hep tartışmalı bir figürdü ve öyle kalacak. Göçebe bir bedeviden Libya’nın hükümdarlığı seviyesine kadar yükselişi etkileyici olsa da ülkeyi…
Muammar Gaddafi was, is, and always will be a controversial figure. Though his rise from Bedouin nomad to ruler of Libya is impressive, many of the things he did while in control of the country were unquestionably authoritarian and criminal. However, Gaddafi began as a sort of liberator. He joined the Libyan military in the…
Review of From Urbanization to Cities: The Politics of Democratic Municipalism by Murray Bookchin From Urbanization to Cities The Politics of Democratic Municipalism by Murray Bookchin (AK Press, 2021) In this updated version of the late Murray Bookchin’s initial 1987 title The Rise of Urbanization and the Decline of Citizenship, now with an introduction by…
Partition & Entanglement: Review of Home Rule by Nandita Sharma “The entire, eons-long practice of human movement into new places was pushed out of our imagination — or, perhaps more accurately, was reimagined as a national security threat. In the process, stasis was glorified as the normative way of being human.” “Only after the death…
Recent years have seen a resurrection of a Great Man Of History Marxist scholasticism that fixates on some (easily accessible) Original Core Texts of supposed genius and discards all the complicated stuff afterwards, certainly everything in recent decades. This impulse is the product of a mass flocking to radical leftism wherein new recruits have little…
Di Kevin Carson. Articolo originale: Review: The Operating System by Eric Laursen, pubblicato il primo settembre 2021. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. Eric Laursen. The Operating System: An Anarchist Theory of the Modern State. Foreword by Maia Ramnath (AK Press, 2021). Molti degli argomenti trattati da Laursen in questo suo libro sono già noti a molti…
Eric Laursen. The Operating System: An Anarchist Theory of the Modern State. Foreword by Maia Ramnath (AK Press, 2021). Much of the ground Laursen covers in this book is already familiar to most anarchists. He does an adequate job, or better, at all of it. His treatment of the ideological hegemony of the state is…
Let’s begin this review honestly: despite having referenced her in multiple articles, I—like almost all leftists regardless of ideology—do not like Ayn Rand and am most certainly not an Objectivist. I approach her much like Karl Hess did: seeing her value in comparison to Emma Goldman but rejecting her ostensive, unflattering solipsism. Yet, I consider Chris…
Por Kevin Carson. Original: Book Review: Ruth Kinna and Clifford Harper. Great Anarchists (London: Dog Section Press, 2020). Traducido en español por Diego Avila. Escrito por la erudita anarquista Ruth Kinna (profesora de Teoría Política en la Universidad de Loughborough y editora de Anarchist Studies) e ilustrada por Ralph Harper (más famoso por las ilustraciones en Radical…
DisCO Coop (primary authors Stacco Troncoso and Ann Marie Utratel). Groove is in the Heart: The DisCO Elements. Introduction by Ela Kagel and Afterword by Ann Marie Utratel (2020). As the Introduction explains, the first installment of the DisCO Trilogy — The DisCO Manifesto — was about ” the reasons behind DisCO, its roots and…
“To remain in the neuro-semantic insanity of larval society, without laughing hysterically or otherwise giving away the secret of one’s mutation, is the path of the Bodhisattva, who, like Father Demian going to live among the lepers, steels himself against the risk of contagion and returns to the madhouse of Circuit I-IV humanity.” –The Starseed…
