For a long time, early industrializing countries were absorptive. They were endlessly able to absorb new labor inputs to keep expanding. This was bot…

- Joshua Clover

My point is that the alienation of theory and practice, intellectual and manual labor, is a real issue, but it's the outcome of social domination; it…

- Joshua Clover

People often say, "Riots aren't revolutions." That's true. The vast majority of riots never become revolutionary. On the other hand, show me the revo…

- Joshua Clover

The most important quote about poetry and politics that I know is from a different situationist, Guy Debord. He was locked in a debate with the Frenc…

- Joshua Clover

I'm trying to mediate between individual agency and structural determination. I accept that people make individual choices, quite thoughtful, quite c…

- Joshua Clover

When people are in a workplace where it's possible to organize and engage in labor actions, that's how they fight, and it can be very effective. When…

- Joshua Clover

People do make considered choices about whether they want to fight, and how, and they do so from disparate circumstances. But I think there are two i…

- Joshua Clover

Over the last few decades, I've grown more skeptical about a few things in which I used to have more faith. I believe as much in the necessity of, an…

- Joshua Clover

People who oppose violence often defend strikes, forgetting that strikes are historically every bit as violent as riots. They recast history so that …

- Joshua Clover