Morning Comrades! We are doing things a little different this Friday due to a number of pressing matters at this end, meaning that your usual contributions from both Ana and Tatjana are taking a break this week, as well as some of your usual columns on Friday. Still heaps of resources and topics for you to take into the weekend of course but first up is this weeks drop, one that I am stoked on only because I am slowly getting out of this damn year long creative hole.
First up is this Champion flip whose profits I am donating to my local homeless shelter. Figured it was a good time to take the anti-capitalist message from the Wu Tang Clan a step further and add some class / materialistic vibe via our friend Marx into this one. Available both as a t-shirt and a chunky, heavyweight hoodie.
Up next is a design I shared a week or so ago, again another flip on the Respect Your Elder line to Suspect Your Elders. I explained the theory behind this one a few weeks back but it should be more than obvious at this point. Also available as a t-shirt and importantly as a kids t-shirt as well.
As always, I am incredibly grateful for your interest and support in these matters and if buying clothes just isn’t your thing this time of year I would like to point you to the two options with which you can help keeping the lights on at my place. One, obviously is to become a paying supporter of Black Lodges - it’s 10USD a month, of which I get around 8USD and you can cancel at any time you wish. With that you get an extra email a week, a discount code for any and all gear I put out and my unrelenting appreciation.
Also, and this is kind of new here, you can also give a Gift Subscription to whomever you want to, same deal applies to this one as well.
I have written about Eva von Redecker a number of times in here and English options are finally becoming a reality. I consider her work to be some of the most valuable and intellectually worthwhile in this wonderful world of Marxist Theory and Praxis. The most recent book, “Praxis and Revolution” is an insanely worthwhile contribution to making the world a better place. The above image leads to an hour long interview with Eva in English and I implore you to listen and get into the work.
Eva von Redecker reconsiders critical theory’s understanding of radical change in order to offer a bold new account of how revolution occurs. She argues that revolutions are not singular events but extended processes: beginning from the interstices of society, they succeed by gradually re-articulating social structures toward a new paradigm. Developing a theoretical account of social transformation, Praxis and Revolution incorporates a wide range of insights, from the Frankfurt School to queer theory and intersectionality. Its revised materialism furnishes prefigurative politics with their social conditions and performative critique with its collective force.
Von Redecker revisits the French Revolution to show how change arises from struggle in everyday social practice. She illustrates the argument through rich literary examples—a ménage à trois inside a prison, a radical knitting circle, a queer affinity group, and petitioners pleading with the executioner—that forge a feminist, open-ended model of revolution.
Most importantly, you can and you should get your hands on the new book in English here.
Below are a number of documentaries from youtube for your weekend, presented without comment because they are all worth your time.
I am going to leave you with some hot shots from the last few days because they are worthy of your attention, for you to share and I am sure we will be talking about them some more these next coming days. Until then, I do remain, yours, without compromise,
V.