Struggle: Marxist vs. Anarcho-Syndicalist

A brief critique of Marxist theories of the 'dictatorship of the proletariat', 'vanguardism', and 'moral-idealism'.

AI Risk as Traditional Theory

Recently unauthorized activities by the AI agents of the top artificial intelligence companies such as hacking third parties and escaping guardrails have brought conversations about the risk to humanity posed by AI into the public spotlight. Perhaps strangely it is top AI researchers and investors in AI that are sounding

Excavating the democratic mind

“Democracy can be more than two wolves and a sheep voting on who will become dinner. It can also be, through a grueling process of rotating consensus-building, become one wolf voting with the sheep against the other wolf over who will become dinner, or the sheep, worn down by constant

What Was 9/11?

On September 11 2001 hijackers took control of four flights; flying two planes into the world trade center buildings and another into the Pentagon building, with the fourth intended to be crashed into the capitol building being taken over by passengers and crashing in an open field. Nearly 3000 people

Limitations of Reformism and the Imperative of Class Struggle

It has already been explained in dozens of texts that the history of human civilization is essentially the history of class struggle. Ever since the breakdown of primitive communist society, the existence of two opposing classes—the exploiters and the exploited—has become inevitable. Although the form of this exploitative

The Life, Melody, and Rhythm of Tea Garden Workers

BANGLADESH : The Hilly Valley Awaiting Promised Liberation

Libcom’s Essay and the Theoretical Bankruptcy of Appeasement

Background of Structural Transformation and Theoretical Struggle At every turning point in human history, particularly in the liberation struggle of exploited and oppressed working people, theoretical clarity has always played a central role. In the current capitalist and bureaucratic world order, merely transferring state power or capital cannot bring about

The Return of the Barracks State

Watchdoc’s investigative documentary Pesta Babi (Pig Feast) explicitly and undeniably dismantles the deeply rooted blood ties between military institutions, the state apparatus, and the circulation of capital in Papua. In this heart wrenching film, it is made perfectly clear how the expansion of New Autonomous Regions (DOB) in Papua

The Return of the Barracks State

Film dokumenter investigatif Pesta Babi garapan Watchdoc dengan sangat telanjang membongkar relasi darah yang mengakar kuat antara institusi militer, aparatus negara, dan sirkulasi modal di tanah Papua. Dalam dokumenter yang menyayat hati tersebut, diperlihatkan dengan gamblang dan tak terbantahkan bagaimana pemekaran Daerah Otonomi Baru (DOB) di Papua (yang kerap dibungkus

Bolshevik Confusion and the Theoretical Bankruptcy of Anarchists

In the long and complex intellectual trajectory of political and social movements, a fundamental question has always come to the fore: which party, religion, philosophy, or ideology is genuinely capable of liberating human beings? In the realm of philosophical practice, the dialectical currents of the East and the West have

133 Days of Classical Marxism

Marx's corpus not only produced the most detailed critical analysis of capitalism to ever be produced, but it immediately spawned, with the help of his collogue Friedrich Engels, a new system of thought and practice that would become dominant in the radical labor movement through the second international

The USSR: An Anarchist View

In my article on the Russian Revolution I explained the process by which the first communist state in world history came into existence. In 1922 this state became known as the Soviet Union. Those who embrace the official ideology that ultimately took root within it think of it as a