Communization

“Communization is nothing other than communist measures taken as simple measures of struggle by the proletariat against capital.”

[IU on Strike @IUonStrike]

@Communization_ This reflection last year felt helpful and expansive: https://t.co/mAPVcO4srQ

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(Not on Der Stührmer Online™️ though; never post about fun times on here).

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I am a university student (& a worker). I see, in my own daily operations, the function of universities as institutions of corporate power & state repression, and the transformation of human knowledge into pure capital flows.

Against this, we pose a different conception.

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This is an open call for all of us to formulate our own experiences, lest they be formulated for us. If you have battled ICE, gotten your head busted by cop at Columbia, bathed in the flame in Los Angeles or Minneapolis, we need you to reflect, so you will be ready to act!

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https://t.co/yFbepyjjPb

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The Occupy movement led to university sit-ins, occupations, and encampments. Much has been written on the topic, and one could say we are now in the post-post-Occupy era.

Now that we are freed from the shackles of imminent failure, what lessons can we learn?

[Ill Will @illwilleditions]

This quote is from an original interview in the upcoming book No Bad Protesters: Ethics, Social War, and the George Floyd Uprising by Arturo Castillon.

Coming in September. Pre-order your copy today: https://t.co/vX1skmRz29

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https://t.co/OFrT7n4d2K

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𝗘𝗻𝗱𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀 — 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯

"The systematic dialectic of capital...threatens its own immanently produced supersession in the action of the proletariat, which through immediate communising measures abolishes itself and produces communism."

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Drop other articles on ICE and anti-ICE resistance in the replies. Solidarity, and fuck ICE!

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𝙁𝙐𝘾𝙆 𝙄𝘾𝙀
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Two contrasting views of the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles a year ago. One from the resistance fighters on the ground, in @longhaul_mag, the other a broad-scope view of the riots and their implication for communism in @endnotesjournal.
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Highly rec both!

[Communization @Communization_]

"The sheer scale of the mobilizations against ICE in Los Angeles demonstrates that a huge portion of the city’s residents are willing to fight to defend a form of life that has been declared—and in large parts is—illegal."
https://t.co/o2dTczNuRG

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"In reproducing itself, wage labor reproduces the conditions of its own exploitation, which is to say, capital."

https://t.co/LKPlYozaV8

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𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗶𝗳𝘁: 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗖 — @e_flux

"This essay examines the antinomy of class struggle: while capital accumulates by exploiting wage labor, the reproduction of wage labor reproduces the conditions of exploitation that propel the accumulation of capital."

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What is your favorite communization text?

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There exists some confusion regarding the communization milieu and its constituents. Allow me to explain. ↙️

While the term 'communization' has some precedent in early, Utopian socialist circles, it was first used in its modern sense by French Marxist Gilles Dauvé in the 70s.

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Endnotes and TC reject Tiqqun/IC's claim of the communization label, and the former subjected IC to an aggressive undressing in the book "Communization and Its Discontents", a collection of essays by and about groups in the milieu.