Vectors of Fascism “Just as the immense violence of the American imperial State can be understood both as a function and as a symptom of its decline, the extraordinary concentration of capital and repressive power is also haunted by its own sense of precariousness. This is why someone like Elon Musk exists almost as a pure symptom: the combination of anti-trans sentiment, the Great Replacement theory, an obsession with white Afrikaner farmers, and the feeling that his political and economic power is not secure.  A starting point for an anti-fascist Left might be to ask what it would mean to embody this thing they fear, to give reality to their paranoia about expropriation, ‘social justice,’ or the ‘power’ of working people.” — Alberto Toscano @Alberto63137378 communispress.com/vectors-of…

Vectores del fascismo «Del mismo modo que en la enorme violencia del Estado imperial estadounidense cabe ver tanto una función como un síntoma de su declive, la extraordinaria concentración de capital y poder represivo también se ve acechada por su propia sensación de precariedad. De ahí que alguien como Elon Musk exista casi como puro síntoma: en él se combinan la transfobia, la creencia en la teoría del Gran Reemplazo, la obsesión por los granjeros afrikáneres blancos y la sensación de que su poder político-económico no está asegurado. La izquierda antifascista podría empezar por preguntarse qué significaría encarnar precisamente eso que tanto temen Musk y otros como él, hacer realidad sus paranoias sobre la expropiación, la “justicia social” o el “poder” de las trabajadoras y los trabajadores.» — Alberto Toscano @Alberto63137378 communispress.com/vectores-d…

Defining Trumpism, defeating Trump “The idea of socialism, of economic democracy, of the economy being controlled by the majority of people — that is, by the working class— is part of the solution. That’s a difficult thing for some people to grasp or to feel comfortable with, but realities are fluid right now, and there is tremendous discontent.” — Paul Le Blanc communispress.com/defining-t…

May we explain? “The central question at issue in the present essay, and arguably the central question at issue in our wider politico-judicial moment is to what extent does an activist or protestor, or indeed anyone at all, have a legally sanctioned right to explain why they believe they did the right thing?” — Peter Hallward communispress.com/may-we-exp…

Democracy, Socialism, Lenin “During its first years, the Communist International proposed and tested strategic and tactical concepts — mass action, the united front, efforts to build powerful class-conscious workers’ movements in different countries — that retain their value and continue to be studied. Far from saying 'goodbye' to Lenin’s legacy, we should confront and renew it. Lenin and his comrades offer too much of value to do otherwise.” — Paul Le Blanc communispress.com/democracy-…

Between Self-Destruction and Return “If the Cuban Revolution still exists, it does so only against the discontinuous time of its return: an ethical impulse that resists the time of its own temporality, an event that runs counter to its spatio-temporal determinations.” — Josué Veloz Serrade communispress.com/between-se…

Entre auto-destrucción y retorno «Si la Revolución Cubana todavía existe lo hace sólo contra el tiempo discontinuo de su retorno: pulsión ética que se resiste al tiempo de su temporalidad, acontecimiento a contrapelo de sus determinaciones tempo-espaciales.» — Josué Veloz Serrade communispress.com/entre-auto…

Tragedy under Siege “Tragedy has often been rejected by those engaged with radical social transformation, as an ultimately conservative genre that sublimates the engineered fact of social powerlessness into figures of fate. Against those who would see an age of revolutions as an anti-tragic age, one whose belief in the possibility of progress makes it inhospitable to the irreparable, one could instead follow Raymond Williams’s argument in his Modern Tragedy, according to which he ‘[saw] revolution, that is to say, in a tragic perspective.’” — Alberto Toscano @Alberto63137378 communispress.com/tragedy-un…

Cuba: The Hour of Reckoning "Where is the people’s Axis of Resistance in Latin America, Europe, or even within the United States? From within the State logic nothing comes but calls for respect for a defunct international order, and appeals to a non-existent multilateralism. It comes also the unacceptable insistence in placing a wedge between the Cuban people and the only State and government able and willing to represent and defend them against the Empire, as if the only problem and the root cause of the present situation in and around Cuba was the 'Cuban regime.'” — La Tizza communispress.com/cuba-the-h…

Genocide’s Wake "Israel’s impunity and the destruction of the order of rights and accountability anticipate a retrenched new world order that eagerly dispenses with the very idea of universality with which it has for two centuries quietly divided the world into the rights-bearing subjects of freedom and the subjected unworthy of inclusion.[iii] From being the worst of crimes, genocide has now become the norm by which neoliberalism emplots the total violence of its new strategies of accumulation." — David Lloyd communispress.com/genocides-…