Not a Good Century for Thinking One curious thing about the history of anarchism and Marxism is despite the long history of rivalry and conflict between our respective traditions, there’s an implicit acceptance of Marx by many anarchists. When anarchists are pushed about just what exactly capitalism is, what many describe is entirely copacetic with…

Oleh : Kevin Carson. Teks aslinya berjudul Cuban Urban Farming, and Special Periods Old and New. Diterjemahkan kedalam Bahasa Indonesia oleh Sachadru. Ada kesamaan yang mencolok antara gigantisme industri Amerika Serikat dan blok Soviet pada abad ke-20, dan budaya kelembagaan mereka. Hal ini berlaku khususnya di bidang pertanian. Keduanya didasarkan pada pertanian berskala sangat besar,…

De Kevin Carson. Artigo original: Cuban Urban Farming, and Special Periods Old and New, de 8 de maio de 2023. Traduzido para o português por Gabriel Camargo. Há paralelos marcantes entre o gigantismo industrial dos Estados Unidos e do bloco Soviético no século XX, e suas culturas institucionais. Isso é verdade em particular para a…

Yazar: Kevin Carsoni. Orijinal makale: Cuban Urban Farming, and Special Periods Old and New, yayınlanma tarihi: 8 Mayıs 2023. 20. yüzyılda Amerika Birleşik Devletleri’nin ve Sovyet bloğunun endüstriyel devliği ile kurumsal kültürleri arasında dikkat çekici paralellikler bulunmaktadır. Bu durum özellikle tarım için geçerlidir. Her ikisi de son derece büyük ölçekli ve yüksek düzeylerde mekanizasyona sahip…

Kevin Carson. Articolo originale: Cuban Urban Farming, and Special Periods Old and New, dell’otto maggio 2023. Traduzione italiana di Enrico Sanna. Molto accomuna la novecentesca grandeur statunitense e l’Unione Sovietica, ognuna con le rispettive culture istituzionali. Soprattutto se parliamo di industria agricola. In entrambi i casi abbiamo enormi aziende altamente meccanizzate che fanno ampio uso…

There are striking parallels between the industrial gigantism of the United States and the Soviet bloc in the 20th century, and their institutional cultures. This is true in particular of agriculture. Both were based on extremely large-scale farms, with high levels of mechanization and heavy use of synthetic fertilizers. From the Cuban Revolution until the…

Andrew turned suddenly toward Julia and, with the distinct disdain for anything ‘liberal’ that identified him as either a leftist or a conservative, spoke bluntly: “You care so much about the environment that you don’t even care about people. Are people in the ‘third world’ just supposed to give up factories? I’m not saying the…

Di Kevin Carson. Originale pubblicato il 30 ottobre 2019 con il titolo Review: A DisCO Manifesto. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. Stacco Troncoso and Ann Marie Utratel. If I Only Had a Heart: A DisCO Manifesto. Value Sovereignty, Care Work, Commons and Distributed Cooperative Organizations (Guerrilla Media Collective: Forthcoming, 2019) Come dice Ruth Catlow nell’introduzione, i…

As stated by Ruth Catlow in the Foreword, DisCOs are an alternative to blockchain-based Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO):  Open Distributed Cooperatives. They’re funded by member investments rather than third party capital, and organized around an infrastructure of “interoperable, open-source legal contracts, with a near zero-cost of organisation creation.” DisCOs differ from the predominant model of…

One of the most challenging elements to a post-Brexit order is the organisation and understanding of law. Since our accession into the EEC, our laws have been increasingly harmonised with and even led by European Union directives and court judgments. Thus we’ve moved into the position of having legislation more dominant in legal acquiescence than…

Binoy Kampmark discusses the atrocities of the Shia militias. Anand Gopal discusses the creation of an Afghan Blackwater. Laurence M. Vance discusses limiting the government’s carbon footprint. David S. D’Amato discusses decentralism and libertarianism. Kevin Schwartz discusses hyping a proxy war in Yemen. Laurence M. Vance discusses the drug war litmus test. Glenn Greenwald discusses…