The drawing ‘Autonomous Terrace’ by anarchist artist Clifford Harper was published first in the book ‘Radical Technology’ in 1974 as part of a series of illustrations “that although they are utopian images they depict an existence that is immediately approachable” (Harper 1984, p. 99). In Harper’s (ibid.) words, “all it would take is the seizing…[Read more]

Die Spaltung von (kommunistischen) Anarchist*innen und (marxistischen) Kommunist*innen wurde oft als die Differenz einer politischen und einer sozialen Idee und Strategie der Revolution porträtiert. Im Folgenden wird ein anderer Ansatz gewählt. Ausgehend von der erkenntnistheoretischen These, dass sich soziale Praktiken und Imaginationen immer a…[Read more]

Over the past decade, the idea of the commune has again become increasingly important to political theorists and philosophers thinking about communism. Within their debates, the anarchist-communist line of thought and practice of the commune is not much reflected. This is a mistake.
Within this chapter I reconstruct the collectively shared…[Read more]

Over the past decade, the idea of the commune has again become increasingly important to political theorists and philosophers thinking about communism. Within their debates, the anarchist-communist line of thought and practice of the commune is not much reflected. This is a mistake.
Within this chapter I reconstruct the collectively shared…[Read more]