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 people are not in that situation, they fight in other ways. They fight in the marketplace. One need only notice that there's been a meaningful shift in where people are over the last thirty, or fifty years from traditional productive industries toward a kind of work that involves circulation of capital and products, and toward unemployment. People who are in that situation are unlikely to fight somewhere else.
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
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
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…
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
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…
I'm trying to mediate between individual agency and structural determination. I accept that people make individual choices, quite thoughtful, quite c… - Joshua Clover
I'm trying to mediate between individual agency and structural determination. I accept that people make individual choices, quite thoughtful, quite c…
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
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…
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
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…
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
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…
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
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…
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
People who oppose violence often defend strikes, forgetting that strikes are historically every bit as violent as riots. They recast history so that …
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