The Coming Insurrection

That's what I thought at first but then I realized that the best way to fight this system is through decentralized communes that can be organized locally and by everyone. Movements create leaders and opponents and often lead to in-fighting. Actually doing something, getting togethet with people In your neighbourhood or city can have an impact. Thats also the best way at radicalizing people.

Sure, in theory it sounds nice, and as pure as communist politics could go. Meanwhile, in reality, the workers (even in the first world) have very little free time to do collective action or to study, neoliberalism took their bargaining power, and organize their enjoyment according to the dominant ideology. The left needs structures to counter these problems and my vouch is that a party is essential for that and that their proposed loose affinity-groups can't be a proper solution.

On another note, they also propose terrorism as a way to move forward – something that needs to be seriously re-evaluate not just because the global "anti-terrorist" agenda and ISIS, but because the historical experience of the 20th century. IMO when the left turns to terrorism, it is a sign of weakened and undisciplined worker organizations and the last solution of a bitter radical.

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Not terrorism as such. They do not suggest killing civilians, they say that production and distribution in capitalism should be disrupted as a way of bargaining. For example, blocking an important highway or port so that goods can't flow and businesses relying on that hihhway or port lose money. Those who blocked it then have a larger chance of getting their demands met.

I also think vandalism is a sign of anger, such as riots. Capitalist media portrays riots as chances for criminals to loot, while the invisible committee (rightly) says they are a symptom of unhappiness, discontent and anger.

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No. You could give me a brief synopsis to convince me? I'm kinda busy rn so I only wanna read things that are actually interesting.

How can anons here possibly love it and then still believe that parliamentarism and other strategies where you have to engage in bourgeois politics work?
The Coming Insurrection is probably one of the most ultra-leftist works published in the last 20 years.

I guess people just like it because most leftists think it's fancy to have it in their bookshelf.

then you should stop reading religious work

Don't waste your time, you are too stupid to understand it.

It's less than 40 pages you lazy nigger.

I guess it is fashionable. I wonder how many Berniefags and Stalinists unironically like it.

You must be joking

Zizek can be wrong you know. He is a wealthy man who doesn't even understand why someone would steal a TV. I know I do, I know I would.

I'd steal and sell a TV so i could buy drugs.

I'd sell drugs to buy a TV.
Actually I'm selling drugs to buy a TV. I want a small one that plays video tapes.

Where are you going to get video tapes? At blockbuster?

I heard about it because Glenn Beck was crying about how "evil" it was. (Remember that? Didn't think so)

Well… I don't know, everyone has video tapes they don't play anymore ? I've already got tons for free. Maybe it's a french thing tho, people here just keep them like they'll come back into fashion someday.

They won't.

I enjoyed it. Better than most Anarchist crap.

Yeah, its similar to CrimethInc.'s Days of Love, Nights of War but without the lifestylist crap about eating garbage and shit.

Fun read, essentially a more poetic than logical description of the present.

The part I have the most trouble with is their 'fantastic' proposals.

They go to great lengths to beautifully describe the hyper-complexity and technological fractured moment we occupy and then refuse to reasonably engage with it in their conclusions.

Well, we live in a new world, so we need to adapt our tactics. Worker's unions are outdated because there are no more 'workers' to unionize. Can't protest and put forward demands because the only demand we have left is the dismantling of the capitalist system.

I quite like the idea of decentralized communes, growing food, feels very ancom and Conquest of Bread-y.

I agree there is a crisis of praxis.

But, at the risk of being somewhat dramatic:

a global post capitalist elite living in guarded compounds serviced by robots, surrounded by communes that constitute the proletariat who survived the destabilization of modern global food supply chains and centralized power/water systems - I wouldn't consider a victory

Is that the kind of vision of the future you get from The Coming Insurrection?

Because I see decentralized, loosely confederated communes that grow their own food and take care of other basic necessities but engage in exchange of specialised skills and products with other communes on a gift economy basis.

For example commune 1's steel mill breaks down and a person who can fix it lives on commune 2. That person goes over there and does it for free.

The trick is appropriating enough of the old means of production to guarantee some standard of living to those in the communes.
But even if it is as dystopian as you say, it'd be refreshing, even invigorating, to return to societies organized broadly and visibly by class.