Author: Jean-Pierre Voyer Title: The Economy is Only an Ideology in Marx’s Sense Date: 1979 Notes: First Published in France in 1979 in Report on the State of Illusions in Our Party Followed by Revelations Concerning the Principle of the World Source: Retrieved 06/08/2023 from leuven.pagesperso-orange.fr The most crudely false aspect of Marx’s theory resides in his so-called critique of economics where, in the guise of a critic, he incessantly upholds the viewpoint of economics itself. And one hundred years after his death, this enormous as well as his most fundamental error has still not bee ..read more

Author: Jean-Pierre Voyer Title: My Goal in Life Notes: Translation by Roger Grégoire, Linda Lanphear Source: Retrieved 06/08/2023 from leuven.pagesperso-orange.fr Even though in a way I always knew it, I have only now become fully aware that my only goal in life, as soon as I read Capital in 1962, was to disqualify the reductionism of Marx. The term reductionism did not awake a response in me until now. I understood it, but didn’t suspect its importance. Your letter revealed it to me. Clearly justified in the sciences of nature, reductionism has no justification when it is a question of stud ..read more

Author: Dan Fischer Title: An Ambiguous Paradise Built in Hell Date: January 7, 2023 Source: Retrieved on 8 June 2023 from newpol.org/an-ambiguous-paradise-built-in-hell. Dilar Dirik, The Kurdish Women’s Movement: History, Theory, Practice (London: Pluto Press, 2022) On November 20th, Turkey launched Operation Claw-Sword, a large-scale campaign of drone attacks killing civilians and militants in the predominantly Kurdish regions of Syria and Iraq.[1] Then, in Paris on December 23rd, a shooter murdered three Kurds in a disturbing echo of the city’s 2013 shooting that killed the Kurdistan Wor ..read more

Author: Ivan Illich Title: The Right to Useful Unemployment Subtitle: and Its Professional Enemies Date: 8 Feb. 1979 Front Matter FOREWORD In the last decade or so I have prepared and published a number of essays{1} on the industrial mode of production. During this period, I have focused on the processes through which growing dependence on mass-produced goods and services gradually erodes the conditions necessary for a convivial life. Examining distinct areas of economic growth, each essay demonstrates a general rule: use-values are inevitably destroyed when the industrial mode of production ..read more

Author: Various Title: Daedalus Fails Date: 2023 Source: Retrieved on 2023-06-02 from daedalusfails.wordpress.com/2023/04/05/daedalus-fails Daedalus Fails by Julian Langer Daedalus fails (not “Daedalus failed” or “Daedalus will fail”) — Daedalus, here signifying the father of technology, invention and architecture, fails as an active process that is happening. Daedalus fails (not Daedalus is failing, suggesting that Daedalus could succeed) — Daedalus’ failure, here, is pessimistically affirmed as all his projects could achieve. Daedalus fails. Breathing in the ruination that is Daedalus’ fail ..read more

Author: Paul Cudenec Title: The Anarchist Revelation Subtitle: Being What We’re Meant To Be Date: 2013 Notes: The Anarchist Revelation: Being What We’re Meant To Be by Paul Cudenec (Winter Oak Press, Sussex, England) (2013) was added by MXS. Source: archive.org/details/the-anarchist-revelation Preface There are a few things that need clarifying about the text that follows. Firstly, I should stress that in quoting any writer, I am in no way endorsing anything else they may have said or written elsewhere. For instance, as this book was being prepared for publication, Derrick Jensen was being re ..read more