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January
07:00
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January
1917: More than 140,000 Russian
workers strike in commemoration
of the 12th anniversary of Bloody Sunday.
How can we identify ourselves with
a revolution from a present point of view
having a historical perspective?
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Liberals listen to Leonard Cohen
see what you think but
the quieter you become
the more you are able to hear
A whole new level of evil
wifi Hack: Hurt Core
Matthew David Graham
we don’t think red rooms exist
Paranoia in the eyes of unreason
off the normal in times of submission
"If religion served as the opium of the people in the
revolutionary era,
conspiracy theory is crack cocaine for the age of hopelessness"
Friends of the Classless Society
don’t know why but I’m not convinced
by the explanatory nature of
confusion: self-promotion
Shame for the cultural elite
fragmentation in motion
your world is crumbling
ours is being build up
fresh out of despair
actions in the flesh
narrow thoughts in the raw
Cynicism 4.0 and a future of gold
1923: January 23th, Paris, after Germaine Berton killed Marius Plateau, one of the leaders of the French nationalist organisation of the far Right known as Action Française, she said:
“I am not insensitive, and I had to overcome great reluctance before killing a human being, even my enemy”
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February
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February
1917: On International Women’s Day, demonstrators and striking workers – many of whom are women – take to the streets to protest against food shortages and the war.
The February Revolution begins with strikes, demonstrations, and mutinies in Petrograd.
Bannon the lenninist
Bannon the lenninist
Bannon the lenninist
you’ll get a real revolution!
“The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience,
by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and
most strongly impressive.”
Lenin, The Slogans and Organisation of Social-Democratic Work
War
Iran
War
China
War
Islam
Bannon the lenninist
Bannon the lenninist
Bannon the lenninist
you’ll get a real revolution!
Dark
Darth Vader
Dark
Dick Cheney
Dark
Satan
Bannon the lenninist
Bannon the lenninist
Bannon the lenninist
you’ll get a real revolution!
The State will come down
The establishment will be dissolved
And all your racist believes will be crushed down
2017: There is no freedom in a normative vacuum.
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March
07:00
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March
1917: Czar Nicholas II abdicates and includeds his son.
The provisional government formed.
Punk meant not to get back to any origin
but to explore how rotten life is in this ashtray
Sexual fantasies reproduced in stereo
while a subject tries to understand what it is
and what is not
hitting its increasingly solitary head
against a cupboard full of ressentiment
Conditioning our own understanding
by understanding our conditioning
What is this ashtray?
crumbliness of hope anchored in its own self-obsession
Identity as a code, that cannot be decoded
voting for something that every passing day makes less sense
How to believe in democracy when there is no equality?
According to Bordiga,
Communism did not happen in the Soviet Union
Russia was indeed a transitional society
but transitional towards capitalism
Conditioning our own understanding
by understanding our conditioning
Taking hold of our own mediations
but do not try it alone
Historical specificity without being able
to think itself historically
Like being flattened into an mobile screen
and you feel that your life is on the screen
like after this panic attack
I thought I have died
and I no longer feel real
Revolutionary times get swept away
like ads on iPads
but there is undefeated despair
a fetishism for explicit cruelty
while an empty obscurity creeps
into what we have left
Conditioning our own understanding
by understanding our conditioning
Science will constantly find
different understandings of what we are
How to politicise them in order
to know where we want to go
2017:
“Communism will be the
collective management of alienation”.
Samo Tomšič at Historical Materialism in Beirut,
10th March
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April
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April
1917: Lenin returns from exile and arrives in Petrograd via a sealed train and publishes the April thesis.
1) The class-conscious proletariat can give its consent to a revolutionary war, which would really justify revolutionary defeatism, only on condition: (a) that the power pass to the proletariat and the poorest sections of the peasants aligned with the proletariat; (b) that all annexations be renounced in deed and not in word; (c) that a complete break be effected in actual fact with all capitalist interests. Fraternisation.
2) The specific feature of the present situation is passing from the first stage of frustration, owing to our unreasoning trust in the government of capitalists, those worst enemies of peace and socialism to the stage of doing something about it like realizing the potential of what we could have together if we all had access to the means of production and were able to share their benefits.
3) No support for the social democrats; the utter falsity of all its promises should be made clear, particularly of those relating to the renunciation of revolution. Exposure in place of the impermissible, illusion-breeding “demand” that this government, a government of capitalists, should cease to be an imperialist government.
5) Not a parliamentary republic—to return to a parliamentary republic from the Soviets of Workers’ Deputies would be a retrograde step—but instead an open source universal justice equally distributed. Abolition of the police, the army, bureaucrats, wages, private property, the state, gender, race, classes, prisons, mental hospitals, and nurseries.
6) Socialisation of all lands in this world for the benefit of everybody.
7) The immediate destitution of all bankers and the the placing of existing banks into the Bank of the Commons. Change existing currencies into Faircoin until we abolish money as the universal equivalent and we bring about universal equality.
8) It is our immediate task to “introduce” communism, and to bring social production and the distribution of products at once under the control of the “universal commune”.
9) Party tasks:
(a) Immediate dance convocation;
(b) Alteration of ourselves, mainly:
(1) On the question of imperialism and the imperialist wars,
(2) On our attitude towards the state and our demand for a “universal commune”
(3) Amendment of our out-of-date minimum programme;
(c) Change of the Party
10. A new International. We must take the initiative in creating a revolutionary International, an International against the social-chauvinists and against the “Centre”. I quote the words of Rosa Luxemburg, who on August 4, 1914, called German Social-Democracy a “stinking corpse”.
2017: documenta opens for the first time in Athens with the title “Learning From Athens,” in order to enable productive, educational dialogue about various forms of injustice and inequality, incorporating these concerns into its very form by sharing its contents between sites in Germany and Greece.
It gets harsh criticism.
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May
07:02
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May
1917: as the crime rates in the city soared,
an uneasiness, a dangerous ill tember escalated among soldiers, workers, and, most dramatically peasants.
Lost in the middle of nothing
ever present
without recollection
but with the largest data of the past
A future blank
Total question mark
Speculation
while betting on disasters
I wish all of you
At least some of us
I wish all of us
have rebellious moments
fighting over the ruins
fighting ourselves
to make sense of ourselves
Identification
DisiIdentification
performance of ourselves
assumptions that we accept
must be part of our impossibility
to think otherwise
But there is still a buffer
we don’t see it
we don’t use it
We are wrong:
-in how we conceive ourselves
-in how we treat ourselves
-in what we are doing
-in how look at the the past
-in what we do for our future
-in what we do with time
Identification
DisiIdentification
performance of ourselves
assumptions that we accept
must be part of our impossibility
to think otherwise.
2017: Don’t be a smug!
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June
07:00
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June
1917: Russian minister of war Alexander Karensky launches an offensive against Austria-Hungary forces in Galicia, but many soldiers soon refuse to leave their trenches and return home to take part in redistribution of land.
CONVERSATION:
ARE WE SUCCEEDING AT DISOBEDIENCE?
2017: on the 20th of June 172 employees at Berlin’s Volksbühne Theater protest against Chris Dercon’s appointment as director. Three days later Farah, Colin and Mattin performed the last night of concerts at Volksbühne’s Roter Salon before Chris Dercon took over.
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July
10:43
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July
1917: Women are granted the right to vote and hold office. Spontaneous protests against the Provisional Government; after the Bolsheviks unsuccessfully try to direct these protests into a coup, Lenin is forced into hiding. Alexander Kerensky becomes Prime Minister of the Provisional Government.
What understanding of this world
would imply its transformation?
They say: we are overcoming the crisis
They say: elect, elect, elect
your favorite candidate.
Bukharin 1915:
"The state had to be destroyed as a condition of socialism.
Unless it is destroyed, society would be reduced to a servile,
atomised mass under the heel of the new barons of finance capital."
1 of 5 children in Germany grow in poverty
Democracy today is cheap
like a Facebook like
1 of 4 children in Spain grow in poverty
Loot the Looters
Elect, elect, elect
your favorite candidate
While we get
Another like
Elect, elect, elect
your favorite candidate
I like the way I look
I like the way you look
You make me feel so good
that I forget about us
Give me your creative soul,
in the hope that the transcendental
will become empirical
and reality will transform
through our imagination,
keeping away the bad vibes
do whatever you can
to feel as if the problem
is not with you
Elect elect elect
your favorite candidate
Elect elect elect
your favorite candidate
Elect elect elect
The Constituent Assembly elections were held in Venezuela on the 30th July to elect the members of the 2017
Constituent National Assembly.
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