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Johnson Forest City

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Abstract labor hater. Stop the thing-ification of social relations. Have mercy, been waitin' for the bus all day. I got my brown paper bag and my take-home pay

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Counseling Communism Study Circle @councilcommunism.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
We’re excited for 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, 1083 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.
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Johnson Forest City @johnsonforestcity.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
New on libcom: 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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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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Johnson Forest City @johnsonforestcity.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
LFG
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Johnson Forest City @johnsonforestcity.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Check out new printable zine: Sam Chambers -Money libcom.org/article/mone...
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Brian Jenkins @jenkinsaway.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
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."
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Mikkel Krause Frantzen @mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
I love love love this dialogue between Bloch and Adorno
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Johnson Forest City @johnsonforestcity.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
New on libcom: 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...
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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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Johnson Forest City @johnsonforestcity.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
New on libcom: Something’s Missing: A Discussion between Ernst Bloch and Theodor W. Adorno on the Contradictions of Utopian Longing libcom.org/article/some...
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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...
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Johnson Forest City @johnsonforestcity.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
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...
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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...
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Johnson Forest City @johnsonforestcity.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
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...
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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...
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Johnson Forest City @johnsonforestcity.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
If you had to recommend one book as an intro for stateless, classless, moneyless world what would it be?
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Johnson Forest City @johnsonforestcity.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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)
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Johnson Forest City @johnsonforestcity.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Lol
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Johnson Forest City @johnsonforestcity.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
"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"
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Michael A. McCarthy, Three Liberalisms — Sidecar
Tosaka and Trump.
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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Mein Gott this cover goes hard!
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Johnson Forest City @johnsonforestcity.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Class abstractionists could never comprehend..
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Counseling Communism Study Circle @councilcommunism.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
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
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Join the Counseling Communism - CCSC Discord Server!
Check out the Counseling Communism - CCSC community on Discord - hang out with 86 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.
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Johnson Forest City @johnsonforestcity.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
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...
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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...
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William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸 @marxinhell.bsky.social · 30/08/2023
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!
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Johnson Forest City @johnsonforestcity.bsky.social · 21/08/2023
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! counselingcommunism.com/jft
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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...
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Johnson Forest City @johnsonforestcity.bsky.social · 19/08/2023
Pretty good interview on TV www.npr.org/2023/08/11/1193426044/w…
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Johnson Forest City @johnsonforestcity.bsky.social · 16/08/2023
Watched Desperately Seeking Susan and the cameo of John Lurie playing saxophone made me so happy. And it was made only a year after Stranger Than Paradise seems crazy.
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Johnson Forest City @johnsonforestcity.bsky.social · 04/08/2023
Lmk if you want to go in on this with me www.axios.com/local/cleveland/2023/…
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Johnson Forest City @johnsonforestcity.bsky.social · 04/08/2023
Hey y'all What should I listen to? Gonna be on the road for 12 hours this weekend.
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Johnson Forest City @johnsonforestcity.bsky.social · 03/08/2023
Was John Arnold DeMarco actually Don Juan?
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Johnson Forest City @johnsonforestcity.bsky.social · 01/08/2023
Is "exchange-value-positing-labor" (Sam Chambers translation) or "exchange-value-creating production" (Nicolaus translation in Grundrisse) a more helpful term than abstract labor?
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Johnson Forest City @johnsonforestcity.bsky.social · 01/08/2023
"What this reveals, on the other side, is the foolishness of those socialists (namely the French, who want to depict socialism as the realization of the ideals of bourgeois society articulated by the French revolution).. " Marx, Grundrisse p. 248
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Johnson Forest City @johnsonforestcity.bsky.social · 30/07/2023
Cesare Zavattini, The Revolution:
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Johnson Forest City @johnsonforestcity.bsky.social · 30/07/2023
I'm a transit weirdo. My day yesterday: -3 hours on shuttle from Ocean City to BWI Amtrak -2 hours waiting/riding MARC train to DC -11 hours on Amtrak to Ohio
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Johnson Forest City @johnsonforestcity.bsky.social · 30/07/2023
What's up y'all?
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