Counseling Communism Study Circle

Our next meeting is this Sunday! Reading part 2 of Ignatiev’s Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity.

Our next meeting is this Sunday! Reading part 2 of Ignatiev’s Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity.

Anarchists at the No Kings Rallies Following the call to establish an anti-authoritarian presence at the October 18 "No Kings" rallies, we reached out to anarchists in a dozen cities to hear how it went.

Anarchists around the country participated in the No Kings rallies, sharing proposals and in some cases leading marches through the streets.

In this selection of report-backs, the participants share their experiences and conclusions.

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Meeting now! Starting our discussion on Noel Ignatiev’s Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity!

No Kings, But Never Free A Case Against Patriotism

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All are welcome to join! Checkout our discord and/or our website if you need the texts. We hope to see you on October 19th!

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Earlier this month we wrapped up Sam Chambers’ “Money Has No Value” and discussed our next readings! See reply for our upcoming schedule (subject to change) 👇

Update to our schedule! It’s a movie night! Great opportunity for new/interested folks!

On 6/15: we’re reading "The Bonfires of Autonomy In Cherán" by Scott Campbell from the collection Deciding For Ourselves. AND then watching the documentary Union!

The American Revolution we will start on 7/20.

An excerpt from The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933) by Wilhelm Reich.

Tonight we meet to talk about the end of this book, see you there!

Happy 4/20. We’re meeting (and blazing) to discuss Chapters 8 and 9 of the Mass Psychology of Fascism tonight!

Our next meeting is this Sunday! See you then.

Tonight we have our meeting!

Just a little under a week and a half from our next session!

The Mass Psychology of Fascism

“In its pure form fascism is the sum total of all the irrational reactions of the average human character," - Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1942)

Our next meeting is on 2/16! We’ll be discussing the preface and chapters 1-2 of The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm Reich. Yup, very topical!

Our next meeting is this Sunday! Covering “A Cyborg Manifesto,” hope to see you there! 🤖

Two zines on a computer table. On the left is a zine “No. In the beginning was the scream. John Holloway” and to the right “The Fetish Speaks!”

What were the first zines you printed in 2025?

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! 📚✊

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6/15: The American Revolution by James Lee Boggs

7/20: Money Has No Value by Samuel A. Chambers Session #1
8/17: Money Has No Value by Samuel A. Chambers Session #2

Schedule may change so keep up to date with us via email or discord! We also have links to the reading as well in our discord.

2/16: The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm Reich Session #1
3/16: Mass Psychology Session #2
4/20: Mass Psychology Session #3
5/18: Mass Psychology Session #4

We plan to meet monthly on the 3rd Sunday at 6:30pm EST.

We intend to alternate shorter and longer readings. Maybe some movie nights too.
We will plan to meet on Zoom.

1/19: A Cyborg Manifesto by Donna Haraway

Great meeting last night discussing the ending of Hannah Proctor’s Burnout!

We also decided on the next readings for the start of 2025! 🧵

Check out new printable zine:

Sam Chambers -Money

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“It’s hard to change, but change, understood as an ongoing process rather than a completable project, need not result in hardness,” - Hannah Proctor from Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat (2024)

1 week away!

Can’t believe it’s already December!

Which means we’re a couple weekends away from our last meeting of the year!

The Dutch/German Communist Left. Counseling Communism Discussion Guide #1: A project of the Baltimore Libertarian Socialist Caucus, the Council Communism Study Circle met every two weeks from August 2020 until April 2021, brought together by an interest in exploring the idea...

Interested in workers councils but don’t know where to start?

Then check out our study guide of the Dutch/German Radical Left: counselingcommunism.com/dutchgerman/

Four books on Anarchism in the Spanish Civil War:

- Lessons of the Spanish Revolution by Vernon Richards

- Anarchism & Workers’ Self Management in Revolutionary Spain by Frank Mintz

- Revolution & the State by Danny Evans

- Ready for Revolution by Agustin Guillamón