[monochrom] #mRIF: Communism isn't an...

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[monochrom] Workers' Control and the Contradictions of the Bolivarian Process: An Interview with Gustavo Martinez

On June 10, 2010 we caught up with Gustavo Martinez, a union leader in the worker-controlled, nationalized coffee company, Fama de América, in Caracas, Venezuela. The company has 350 workers at the national level, with two separate plants – one in Caracas and one in Valencia. We sat down wi

[monochrom] Di 22.6./depot: Zelimir Zilnik: The Old School of Capitalism

Dienstag, 22. Juni, 20:00 ŽELIMIR ŽILNIK: THE OLD SCOOL OF CAPITALISM Serbien in der Zeit der postkommunistischen Transformation. Der durch die kriminellen Privatisierungen verwüstete Mikrokosmos des globalen Kapitalismus. Die Überreste des zerschlagenen Proletariats versuchen, ihre Rechte z

[monochrom] Word Processors: Stupid and Inefficient

The word processor is a stupid and grossly inefficient tool for preparing text for communication with others. That is the claim I shall defend below. It will probably strike you as bizarre at first sight. If I am against word processors, what do I propose: that we write in longhand, or use a

[monochrom] #mRIF: I say we take off and nuke...

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Re: [monochrom] Ask a philosopher: 'Which came first: The chicken or the egg?'

Würde man wie angekündigt philosphisch darüber nachdenken (wozu ein anglo-amerikanischer Tropf natürlich nicht in der Lage ist), dann muss die Antwort (natürlich) lauten: Seit Aristoteles galt ausnahmslos: zuerst die Henne, dann das Ei, bis zu Heidegger; bei dem zuerst das Ei, dann die Henne. W

[monochrom] Immaterial Value and Scarcity in Digital Capitalism

Essay by Michael Betancourt. The collapse of the United States' "Housing Bubble" in 2008 is the logical and inevitable result of the illusion of production without consumption; however, in spite of the financial collapse, and the bailouts of insolvent financial institutions and the on-going di

[monochrom] The Internet As Civil Right?

If you're one of the millions of Americans who use broadband Internet at home, you probably take for granted how deeply it's woven into your life. It has transformed the way we pay our bills, seek romance, procrastinate, and keep abreast of politics and the lives of friends. The pre-Google er

[monochrom] All the Dead Are Vampires: A natural-historical look at our love-hate relationship with dead people

The vampire story as we know it was born in the early 19th century, as the wicked love child of rural folklore and urban decadence. But in writing these depraved tales, Byron and Polidori and company were refining the raw ore of peasant superstition. And the peasant brain had simply been do