A new political critique from the authors of The Coming Insurrection, calling for a "destituent process" of outright refusal and utter indifference to government. Now is the phantom chapter to the Invisible Committee's previous book, To Our Friends: a new critique from the anonymous collective that establishes their opposition to the world of capital and its law of labor, addresses current anti-terrorist rhetoric and the ferocious repression that comes with it, and clarifies the end of social democracy and the growing rumors of the need for a coming "civil war." Now emerges at a time when the Invisible Committee's contestation has found echoes throughout the West, with a collapse of trust in the police, an inept weariness on the part of the political system, a growing urgency for opposition, a return of the theme of the Commune, a vanishing distinction between radicals and citizens, and a widespread refusal on the part of the citizen to be governed. As farcical political elections continue to unfold worldwide like a line of tumbling dominoes, and governments increasingly struggle to reclaim a legitimacy that has already slipped out of their grasp, Now clarifies the Invisible Committee's attitude toward all such elections and their outcome: one of utter indifference. Now proposes a "destituent process" that charts out a different path to be taken, a path of outright refusal that simply ignores elections altogether. It is a path that calls for taking over the world and not taking power, for exploring new forms of life and not a new constitution, and for desertion and silence as alternatives to proclamations and crashes. It is also a call for an unprecedented communism—a communism stronger than nation and country.
Desert by Anonymous, Chapter 8: Conservation Amidst Change
Desert by Anonymous, Chapter 7: Convergence and the New Urban Majorities
Desert by Anonymous, Chapter 6: Terror-Nullius Returns
Desert by Anonymous, Chapter 5: Civilization Retreats, Wildness Persists
Desert by Anonymous, Chapter 4: African Roads to Anarchy
Desert by Anonymous, Chapter 3: Desert Storms
Desert by Anonymous, Chapter 2: It’s Later Than We Thought
Desert by Anonymous, Authors Note and Chapter 1: No (Global) Future
Socialism Reaffirmed by Maurice Brinton
Rossum’s Universal Robots by Karel Čapek, Epilogue
Rossum’s Universal Robots by Karel Čapek, act 3
Rossum’s Universal Robots by Karel Čapek, act 2
Rossum’s Universal Robots by Karel Čapek, preface & act 1
Revolutionary Unity by Nestor Makhno
Advice to Comrades by Elisee Reclus
Army of Altruists by David Graeber
Syndicalism the Modern Menace to Capitalism by Emma Goldman
Solidarity in Liberty: The Workers' Path to Freedom by Mikhail Bakunin
Power Corrupts the Best - Mikhail Bakunin
Neither Lord nor Subject by Bao Jingyan
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