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COUNSELING COMMUNISM 2025 1/19: A CYBORG MANIFESTO BY DONNA HARAWAY 42 pages. Text available at theanarchistlibrary.org 2/16: THE MASS PSYCHOLOGY OF FASCISM BY WILHELM REICH Session One: Preface and Chapters 1 & 2 - page 1 - 103, 103 pages. Text available on discord. 3/16: THE MASS PSYCHOLOGY OF FASCISM BY WILHELM REICH Session Two: Chapters 3, 4, 5, 6, & 7 - page 104 - 194, 90 pages. 4/20: THE MASS PSYCHOLOGY OF FASCISM BY WILHELM REICH Session Three: Chapters 8 & 9 - page 195 - 307, 112 pages. 5/18: THE MASS PSYCHOLOGY OF FASCISM BY WILHELM REICH Session Four: Chapter 10, 11, 12, & 13 - page 308 - 421, 120 pages. 6/15: THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION BY JAMES BOGGS 93 pages. Text available on discord. 7/20: MONEY HAS NO VALUE BY SAMUEL A. CHAMBERS Session One: Preface, Introduction, and Chapters 1, 2, & 3 - page 1 - 86, 86 pages. Text available on discord. 8/17: MONEY HAS NO VALUE BY SAMUEL A. CHAMBERS Session Two: Chapters 4, 5, 6, & 7 - page 87 - 195, 108

3 QR codes to the discord, schedule, and the zoom meeting link.

Counseling Communism will plan to meet monthly on the 3rd Sunday at 6:30pm EST, with a few extra movie nights thrown in. We plan to meet on Zoom, same link every month. We will start off with Donna Harraway's "A Cyborg Manifesto" in January, before covering Wilhelm Reich's "The Mass Psychology of Fascism" in four sessions from February through May. After that we'll read James Boggs' "The American Revolution" in June, and then spend two sessions covering Samuel Chambers' "Money Has No Value" in July and August.

We’re excited for 2025! 📚✊

with romantic theories of the state and their feudal anti-capitalism, with Prussianism and socialism or other ideologies as premature solutions of social contradictions."

..They fill nihilism-this eminently synchronous contradiction in the retinue of late capitalism, this ideological parallel to the commodity reification of all people and things-with hybrid structures, such as the war spirit of 1914..

"There are today harmonizing images of the past which merely seek to retract or to subordinate to themselves the excesses of capitalism...

Nonsynchronism and the Obligation to Its Dialectics - Ernst Bloch Ernst Bloch writes in 1932 on the importance of the contradictions in the present and nostalgia (nonsynchronism) and potentials for liberation or fascism.

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Nonsynchronism and the Obligation to Its Dialectics by Ernst Bloch.

Ernst Bloch writes in 1932 on the importance of the contradictions in the present and nostalgia (nonsynchronism) and potentials for liberation or fascism.

libcom.org/article/nons...

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Sam Chambers -Money

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As Bloch would say, "I believe, Teddy, that we are certainly in agreement here: the essential function of utopia is a critique of what is present."

I love love love this dialogue between Bloch and Adorno

Towards a Theory of 'Commonization' - Nick Clare and Victoria Habermehl Nick Clare and Victoria Habermehl provide an overview of analytic communization vs. prefigurative communization and the need for creating spaces towards abolishing the commodity form, exchange, money,...

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Towards a Theory of 'Commonization' provides an overview of analytic communization vs. prefigurative communization and the need for creating spaces towards abolishing the commodity form, exchange, money, wage labor/value, and the state.

libcom.org/article/towa...

Something’s Missing: A Discussion between Ernst Bloch and Theodor W. Adorno on the Contradictions of Utopian Longing Ernst Bloch and Theodor W. Adorno discuss notions of hope, negation, and utopia in this interview from 1964. Bloch argues that Marx opposed the superabundance of abstract utopia of so-called utopian s...

New on libcom:

Something’s Missing: A Discussion between Ernst Bloch and Theodor W. Adorno on the Contradictions of Utopian Longing

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State theory in the age of state capitalism 3.0? - Ilias Alami Published in 2021, Ilias Alami provides a theory of the capitalist state that allows for current varieties of state capitalism. The ideas here have been expanded in The Problématique of State Capitali...

State theory in the age of state capitalism 3.0?

Published in 2021, Ilias Alami provides a theory of the capitalist state that allows for current varieties of state capitalism.

libcom.org/article/stat...

Translating 'Capital' for the 21st Century - Marxist Education Project The appearance of a new English-language edition of Marx's Capital, Volume I, translated and edited by Paul Reitter and Paul North, has been a momentous occasion. Join a conversation with Reitter, Nor...

Translating ‘Capital’ for the 21st Century
Sat, December 14 @ 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

A conversation with Paul North, Paul Reitter, and Michael Heinrich

marxedproject.org/event/transl...

I read some excerpts years ago but wasn't impressed still being oriented around labor time.

If you had to recommend one book as an intro for stateless, classless, moneyless world what would it be?

What's up with Foucault saying anarchism and socialism were racist until social democracy happened?

(From the last few pages of Society Must be Defended)

Lol

Michael A. McCarthy, Three Liberalisms — Sidecar Tosaka and Trump.

"When liberalism’s political & economic forms collapse, its cultural register can persist... The Economist noted Harris was ‘running on vibes’. Yet if this kind of liberalism is ultimately no more than the negative freedom of individuals to define themselves, this allows the far right to co-opt it"

Mein Gott this cover goes hard!

"Lipietz presents a cogent and convincing argument that traditional Marxist economics has concentrated too heavily on the production process at the price of ignoring day-to-day forms of capitalist commerce—money and commodities."

Looked it up and sounds on point.

Love some Marxist economics

-Foucault, Society Must be Defended, p. 79.

(note race used here is not referring to later use of biological and medical sense of the term.. and the citation to Marx is actually less direct than that quote? But still holds I think)

Class abstractionists could never comprehend..

Howdy everyone! First post here it goes 🫡 :

Our last meeting for the year is 12/22 at 6:30 PM ET, we’ll be discussing the last chapters of Hannah Proctor’s Burnout and then deciding future readings for 2025. 📖

We’d love to have you there!
Here is our discord for more details: discord.gg/x4DaChSz

Destruction as the Determination of the Scholar in Miserable Times - Johannes Agnoli Johannes Agnoli was a Italian Marxist political scientist, though he rejected the label Marxist, preferring instead - somewhat ironically - to call himself an Agnolist. Werner Bonefeld, a founder of O...

From that collection, a new translation of Johannes Agnoli's "Destruction as the Determination of the Scholar in Miserable Times" has also been transcribed and available here. Much of Agnoli's work is not available in English but keep an eye on Libcom for more: 

libcom.org/article/dest...

Revolutionary Writing - Werner Bonefeld Common Sense was the Journal of the Edinburgh Conference of Socialist Economists (CSE) published from 1987-1999. Revolutionary Writing is a collection of works from Common Sense - where many ideas of ...

There is also a collection of articles from Common Sense called Revolutionary Writing: Common Sense Essays in Post-Political Politics available: 

libcom.org/article/revo...

Open Marxism - Werner Bonefeld Common Sense was the Journal of the Edinburgh Conference of Socialist Economists (CSE) published from May 1987 – December of 1999. It was a “journal of a wholly new type.. a non-university based t...

Some new Open Marxism Stuff on Libcom:

Here in the first issue of Common Sense, Werner Bonefeld describes what Open Marxism is.

libcom.org/article/open...

Might as well announce it here: Paul Reitter's new translation of Capital, vol. 1, with editorial notes by Reitter and Paul North and an afterword by moi, has passed through review at Princeton and will be going into production very soon. Been a long time coming, but it should arrive in 2024!

Thanks! There's a brief discussion of James Boggs in the Grace Lee section. Could have expanded a lot but I tried really hard to keep the guide concise.

C.L.R. James and the Johnson-Forest Tendency. Counseling Communism Discussion Guide #2: The Counseling Communism Study Circle met from May 2021-May 2022 to discuss the works of the Johnson Forest Tendency (JFT). We have collected their most important works here, and encourage you to find...

After a year of reading and discussion I'm happy to share: C.L.R. James and the Johnson-Forest Tendency Discussion Guide!

We dug through many JFT readings & scanned new documents to highlight underappreciated figures from the JFT.

Check it out!

https://counselingcommunism.com/jft/