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I am certain that by now the majority of you have heard, seen or read about the protests that started at Columbia University in New York that are now spreading across a number of other Universities across the US - I would wager it is only a question of time until these spread even further and one can only hope that this includes the European heart of the Capitalist Empire. I am in no position nor have any interest in dissecting these protests, as I wrote on Monday, our revolution is not about posturing and promoting any one take to serve as a projected identity for imaginary social worth but supporting any and all movements against capitalist power structures first- again, it is about us not me. But coming back to these protest, one immediate thought arose yesterday and that it is how much they made me think of the wave of student protests across the West starting in the late 1960s, specifically, the Paris Protests of ‘68 - singular in their reality in the sense that they varied greatly from what was happening in the US - to a point where even the majority of the Parisian and subsequently French Communist Parties even distanced themselves - only proof to the pudding that the entire French Frankfurt School Movement till today is a rotten bourgeois structure - but that’s a story for another day.
What is interesting is what happen, both in praxis and out of that, its theory and how it relates to what is starting to happen now. As a matter of fact, several noteworthy French and Italian comrades have been working on these philosophies that are born out of action rather than vice versa and that is something we are going to dig into today Mainly, the fact that the bourgeoise power structures that administrate the Capitalists Fuckery fear nothing more than us workers, understanding the importance of immediacy.
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