Anarchism & Marxism Part 1

A Panel Discussion on Anarchism And Marxism

Chair: Andrej Grubacic, Sociology, University of San Fancisco

Andrej Grubačić is an anarchist historian who has written prolifically on anarchism and the history of the Balkans. He is a lecturer at the ZMedia Institute and University of San Francisco.

Denis O'Hearn, Sociology, Queens College, Belfast

Denis O'Hearn has been a community activist in Belfast, serving for many years as chair of the West Belfast Economic Forum and on the Board of Governors of the Irish-language primary school Scoil na Fuisoige. He taught at the University of Wisconsin and Queens University in Belfast and was a Fulbright Scholar at University College Dublin in 1991-92. He is now professor of sociology at the University of Binghamton in New York. 
Cindy Milstein, Institute for Anarchist Studies

Cindy Milstein is an anarchist activist and educator who talks at various anarchist and socialist gatherings. She has also been involved with the Institute for Social Ecology, and is currently a board member with the Institute for Anarchist Studies and a co-organizer of the Renewing the Anarchist Tradition conference. Milstein speaks regularly in public, at anarchist conferences and bookfairs as well as radical spaces, including the Finding Our Roots conference, the Unschooling Oppression conference, the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair, the Bay Area Bookfair, the New York Anarchist Book Fair, and Left Forum, among others. Her essays are published in several recent anthologies--Realizing the Impossible: Art against Authority (AK Press, 2007), Globalize Liberation (City Lights, 2004), Confronting Capitalism (Soft Skull, 2004), and Only a Beginning (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004) as well as on the Free Society Collective Web site. She is also a collective member of the all-volunteer Black Sheep Books in Montpelier, Vermont.

Ziga Vodovnik, University of Ljubljana

Ziga Vodovnik is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, where his teaching and research is focused on anarchist theory/praxis and social movements in the Americas. His new book Anarchy of Everyday Life Notes on anarchism and its Forgotten Confluences will be released in late 2008.

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[johnmickle]

@Erlind255 The IWW has created numerous co-operatives and unions over the last decade. They created a Starbucks union which resulted in a strike. They aren't irrelevant and they advocate direct action against employers and the state, this doesn't exactly degrade marxism. Wasting your time with childish shit like condemning revolutionaries for drinking a Pepsi doesn't get you further than creating self managed industry.

[agapeiron]

@Erlind255 I am drinking Pepsi right now (for caffeine; the taste is mediocre), so does that mean I love corporate capitalism?

By your definition, just putting on a pair of jeans means adopting a consumerist "lifestyle." Can you define this idea of "lifestyle" for us? Or are you just saying anti-capitalists should not consume goods produced in capitalist societies?! The latter is absurd.

[MrGreeneggsnham]

@EmotionalIntrovert Janeane Garofalo, lol

[EmotionalIntrovert]

Leftist women tend to be hot.

[lethalsub]

@cidseven Is 'misanthropist' a marxist concept? 

[Pulchism]

wearing a scarf indoors is silly

[PositivelyBored]

@havok4

That's not Starbucks, it's Green Mountain Coffee and Vermont is a socialist U.S. State. :)

[Neighb0urhoodWatch]

@PtAltmVansanTarr Whats your point?

[PtAltmVansanTarr]

@7:00 good analysis of American left with it's focus on activist govt

[PtAltmVansanTarr]

Why are the radicals drinking Pepsi?

[Erlind255]

@johnmickle At the end I am a consumerist. I never felt enthusiastic or went through ecstasy because I would consume something. I consume something because my body requires it, not because I choose so. In fact I am very poor, and very happy. I do not even want more money, as long as I have enough to live. The PC that I am writing is not even mine.

Tell me one reason why would a person drink Starbucks, which has the most expensive coffee's? The answer is clear: "SNOBBERY"!