Wobblies and Zapatistas Part 1

Wobblies and ZapatistasThis is a talk given by Andrej Grubacic at Bluestockings Books in New York City on April 19, 2009.Andrej Grubacic is a radical historian- or, more accurately, an anarchist historian- from the Balkans. Among his works are few books in Balkan languages, chapters and numerous articles related to the history and utopian present of the Balkans. His writings on anarchism, its past and future, are many, and could be found on ZNet. He used to be based in Belgrade, post-Yugoslavia, but after many adventures and misadventures he found himself in Fernand Braudel Center at SUNY Binghamton. Andrej teaches at ZMedia Institute and University of San Francisco. He is a program director for the Global Commons. As anarchist organizer, he is, or used to be, part of many networks: DSM!, Poples Global Action, WSF, Freedom Fight, and many others. He is one of the founding members of the Global Balkans- the network of Balkan anti-capitalists in diaspora- and ZBalkans- a Balkan edition of Z Magazine.

To purchase the book or learn more about Andrej and his work check out the following links:

http://sqworl.com/?i=5bda9c

My apologies to Andrej for misspelling his last name in the video titles.

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[wid85]

I love it when anarchists get involved in labour movements, and encourage others to do so. We need to get back to the time when anarchists were dynamic even in the big unions. The fact he's speaking in New York recalls Emma Goldman, one of the greatest trade unionists and one of the most important anarchist theorists ever.

[spartan2600]

I'm taking a class from that book taught by Grubacic now. great stuff.

[MartyredxMaiden]

Occupy Wall Street defined

[Pogs4Fathersday]

@RJMooreII No, feudalism is called feudalism and not anarchy for a reason. Feudalism is practically hierarchal by definition.

[Pogs4Fathersday]

@CapitalismIsLiberty U mad?

[RJMooreII]

@CapitalismIsLiberty

While I agree with you that these left-anarchists are problematic for reasons of their anti-market leanings, they are not 'communists' in the Stalinist sense, the Zapatistas do have an effective counter-state community. Just because they're violent or do bad things isn't the same as being Statist. Feudal europe had no state, and could be called anarchy, but it was certainly not anarcho-capitalist (though closer than you might think in some ways).

[CapitalismIsLiberty]

the Zapatistas are just a bunch of communist TERRORISTS! the mexican government should have crushed them when they had the chance. as for the IWW, they were just fake anarchists who wanted to create a monopoly on the sale of labor. if you get rid of the state, then we will have true capitalism (not the kind of corporatism we have now.)

[VaQm10]

Thank you for the upload, Im buying this book asap

[FreiheitKampfer]

Buddhagem..

you believe in wage slavery?

aww..

~Anarchist-w/out-adj

[globalista1]

We'll miss you this semester Andrej!

"para todos todo, para nosotros nada!"

[destructicon500]

I just assumed that because you asked the question, you believed that he was a Crimethinc-er. Apologies.

I've briefly skimmed through the essay, but I'll give it a thorough read-over. Thanks