Anarchism, Jewish and African
Two things related only by an anarchist angle:
1. Alexander Schapiro, a figure from East London's pre-WWI Jewish anarchist scene, and the diasporically dispersed anti-Stalinist milieu of the interwar years.
2. Anarchist perspective on Zimbabwe.
1. Alexander Schapiro, a figure from East London's pre-WWI Jewish anarchist scene, and the diasporically dispersed anti-Stalinist milieu of the interwar years.
2. Anarchist perspective on Zimbabwe.
Comments
It reads like some Euro-anarcho-hippy-puppetry nonsense:
“It is in the capricious moments of history when we can best see that Toyitoyi
and revolution have identical goals: to turn the world upside down with joyous
abandon and to celebrate our indestructible lust for life, a lust that capitalism tries so hard to destroy with its monotonous merry-go-round of work and consumerism. In its immediacy, Toyitoyi refuses the constant mediation and representations of capitalism. It opens up an alternative social space of freedom where people can begin to really live again.”
Refusing “the constant mediation and representations of capitalism”? Opening up “alternative space”?
Rhetoric like this is emblematic of people who are out of touch with day-to-day reality. It reminds me of the Resistance Studies nonsense I linked to a few months ago:
http://newcentrist.wordpress.com/2008/05/11/academic-silliness-%e2%80%9cresistance-studies%e2%80%9d/
What is the opposite of Oyvavoyi?
"Toyitoyi"!!!
But then there is no doubt that I am out of touch with day to day reality, and certainly African day to day reality.