This text was written as a series of reflections on a year-long pandemic intertwined with conversations with comrades about love and revolution. It moves in time with no particular chronological order.
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Acid Communism
by Ana Cecilia Dinerstein On 17 April 2019, Plan C Bristol has held a public debate with Argentinian critical theorist Ana Cecilia Dinerstein as part of the local group’s monthly events series. Dinerstein’s recent work has focused on combining Open Marxism and decolonial feminism, and her best-known book is The Politics of Autonomy in Latin
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Acid Communism, Inter/Transnational, Mental Health, Strategy
Plan C has been experimenting with the techniques of consciousness raising for a while, trying to reinvent them for contemporary circumstances. Over the last few months two of our members Nadia Idle and Keir Milburn have picked up this project developing a consciousness raising workshop to uncover the post-capitalist desires being produced today. In this,
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Acid Communism
Keir Millburn, Plan C Leeds. To commemorate the writer, thinker, music commentator, father, revolutionary and Plan C member Mark Fisher we have been re-posting selections of his work, explaining why they mattered to us as his friends and comrades. I’ve chosen this talk given by Mark last year as it carries the most obvious influence of Mark’s
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Acid Communism
Although Capitalist Realism introduced me to Mark Fisher’s writing, it was Suffering With a Smile, a short piece on the Occupied Times website, which really gripped and troubled me. I’ve come back to it time and time again. When I first read it I was a student activist trying to flesh out my developing ‘anti-work’
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Acid Communism
A few days ago, the writer, thinker, music commentator, father, revolutionary and Plan C member Mark Fisher took his own life. Mark had battled with mental ill health for a long time and wrote openly about his struggle with it – contextualising it within a political understanding rather than in the individualised narrative, creating a
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Acid Communism
Tabitha Bast, Leeds Plan C 1. Make Anxiety your Friend. Yeah, I mean it. You know that churning in the belly, the tight feeling in your throat, that Feel we call anxiety and use to explain how we can’t deal, can’t do? That’s adrenaline. that’s the rush of superstrength before we go into battle, before
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Acid Communism, Actions, Mental Health, Strategy
On 22nd March Plan C MCR hosted an introduction to Conversations On The Future, entitled ‘Do You Remember The Future?’ Any attempt to change the world has always been connected to the future – history is driven by a belief in worlds which once seemed impossible. Yet the present is defined by a suffocating cynicism,
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Acid Communism
Any attempt to change the world has always been connected to the future – history is driven by a belief in worlds which once seemed impossible. Yet the present is defined by a suffocating cynicism, one in which it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. What would it
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Acid Communism