“As I see it, #history moves from one #conjuncture to another rather than being an evolutionary flow. And what drives it forward is usually a #crisis, when the #contradictions that are always at play in any historical moment are condensed …” adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

Chartbook 384: "Working the co...

On Weds, I dropped my piece, "Which Moment, Whose Moment, Our Moment." On its face a reply to Commie Caucus, from there I give a read of the broader moment, essentially a synthesis of social reproduction theory & communization, tied to a dual power by direct action strategy. Our moment needs to be understood in terms of the dialectic of the crisis of social reproduction & the proletarian composition of the working class, by deindustrialization, spectacle, segregation, migration, gender exploitation, sexual oppression, & disabilization. While I agree with the comrades that base building is a key strategy in the present, I also argue in favor of community self-determination by mutual aid & tactical escalation with a refusal to compromise; those strategies are often underestimated by the purportedly serious. The past couple decades of mass direct social movements haven't only taught us the lesson of the limitations of movements without an organized social base, but have also taught us the value of communal autonomy & militant action in mass self-organization. Read it here:
https://jfprk.wordpress.com/2023/04/19/which-moment-whose-moment-our-moment-a-reply-to-communist-caucus/
#anarchism #communism #conjuncture #history