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Rank and file electrician. โšก๐Ÿšฉ๐Ÿด @geelongancoms | @classcapitalau

Geelong, Victoria
Joined June 2009
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Commie Tommy
2 years
Last year I realised there was a lack of introductory literature on the basics of anarchist-communism; how our organisations function and the theories behind the way we organise. So I've attempted to write something that I hope comrades will find useful.
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From the river to the sea, fuck Anthony Albanese.
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3 years
Exactly 50 years ago today, on the 6th of September, 1971, members of the Anarchist Federation of Uruguay escaped the Punta Carretas Prison in Montevideo, alongside guerrillas from the Tupamaros. It was the largest prison break in history.
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Commie Tommy
2 years
Capitalism is amazing. Bet they don't have this in Cuba!
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Commie Tommy
2 years
Last week I finished reading Paul Matticks 'Anti-Bolshevik Communism.' I haven't had any time to write a comprehensive review so here's a few thoughts;
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Commie Tommy
11 months
Gonna tell my daughters this is Jesus
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3 years
This banner was cool. Nearly as cool as my @BRRN_Fed t-shirt.
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2 years
Coupla pics of the ongoing influence of anarchism in the Uruguayan union movement.
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Commie Tommy
1 year
I could be wrong but I feel like Malatesta is probably the least hated on historical figure of the left.
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Working Class History
1 year
#OtD 22 Jul 1932 Errico Malatesta, Italian anarchist militant, London ice cream seller, mechanic and member of the Naples section of the International Working Men's Association, died after six years of fascist house arrest at the age of 78. More here:
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Commie Tommy
3 months
The absolute lack of concrete understanding of capitalism by its foremost proponents is always a thing of wonder. Imagine thinking Sydney was 'ruined' by 'Leftists'.
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Rob Smith
3 months
Leftist ruin all major cities across the western world. Sydney, Martin Place 1502 hours.
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2 months
New banner goes off
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Commie Tommy
4 years
"Abolish private property without abolishing government, and the former will be resurrected by those who govern. Abolish government without abolishing private property, and the property owners will resurrect government..." Malatesta; The Socialist State
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Commie Tommy
1 year
There is a certain extent to which all of us on the left in Oz are haunted by the fact something so incredible existed here not that long ago and yet now we are so incredibly far away from that.
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Working Class History
1 year
In our podcast, we spoke to people involved in the Australian 'green bans', where building workers refused to take on jobs that destroyed the environment
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Commie Tommy
2 years
@bolshevikgirl 1905-7 insurrectionist Lenin was something else.
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Commie Tommy
2 months
Things that make you say 'fuck yea'
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6 News Australia
2 months
#BREAKING ๐Ÿšจ Pro-Palestine protesters have stormed the Victorian Labor state conference, video from inside obtained by 6 News shows Watch live: #6NewsAU |
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Commie Tommy
10 months
My toddler is getting into politics appropriate for her age
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Commie Tommy
2 years
What's the far Left like in Australia? Well most of the anarchists are reading Marx and focused on unions. The Marxists are doing mutual aid soup kitchens and advocating interest free 'Peoples Banks.' ๐Ÿ’
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Commie Tommy
2 years
Got a tshirt so I can rep my favourite unorthodox socialist group - who had a big influence on my politics. If ya dunno who Red Action were, let me explainโ€ฆ ๐Ÿงต
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Commie Tommy
6 months
Just a little reminder that Australia doesn't just do what the USA says (even tho it is dominated by US capital), but allies itself with the USA in a calculated manner to achieve its own imperialist ambitions. Our govt isn't just complicit coz it's tails the yanks, its a choice.
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Commie Tommy
2 years
On April 14, 1988 revolutionary anarchist, marxist & gay rights activist Daniel Guerin died in Suresnes, France. Guerin was famous for a number of books, inc Fascism and Big Business, No Gods, No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism & Class Struggle in the First French Republic.
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Commie Tommy
8 months
Geelong showing up!!
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Commie Tommy
2 years
OTD 5th of May, 1937 one of the most brilliant minds of Italian anarchism, Camilo Berneri was extinguished. During the May Days insurrection in Barcelona, Spanish Stalinists arrested Berneri and his comrade Francesco Barbieri, shot them & dumped their bodies in the street.
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Commie Tommy
8 months
@ZionistFedAus Crazy how Victoria just banned one fascist symbol and is now publicly flying another.
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Commie Tommy
7 months
Happy birthday to the most badass electrician of all time.
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Commie Tommy
2 years
Today we had Steve Wright, author of Storming Heaven & Weight of the Printed Word over for lunch. He passed on 5 boxes of incredible vintage socialist material from groups including Aufheben, Solidarity, Wildcat, Midnight Notes, the ISO, ICC, CWO, CPA, DAM and more..
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Commie Tommy
7 months
@ZionistFedAus @ECAJewry This just in, Zionist Federation of Australia angry not enough Palestinian kids have been killed!
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Commie Tommy
3 years
On the 20th of November, 1936 Buenaventura Durruti was shot and killed defending Madrid from the fascists. Durruti was not known for writing great tracts or volumes of theory, he was a hero of the Spanish proletariat for his life commitment to militant, rank and file struggle.
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Commie Tommy
2 months
Really excited for Australia New Zealand Anarchists and Communists (ANZAC) day tomorrow. ๐Ÿ™Œ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ–๏ธ
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Commie Tommy
4 years
RIP the big homie Malatesta. Today, the 22nd of July 1932, after a lifetime of respiratory illness the legendary Errico Malatesta would pass away from pneumonia while under house arrest in Rome.
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Commie Tommy
7 months
Little announcement, as of yesterday i'm now the father of another beautiful little girl. Mother and bub are well. It's a wonderful light in a dark time, to be blessed amongst so much suffering. โค๏ธ
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Commie Tommy
8 months
Hot take, but fighting a guerrilla war to defend a fucking hospital against a much better equipped internationally backed army who invents absolute bullshit to justify genocide against your people and loves killing kids is actually fucking heroic.
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Commie Tommy
6 months
All I want for Xmas is a revolution in the middle east that overthrows the reactionary arab regimes abolishes the state of Israel liberates Palestine and cripples the imperialist economies pitching western workers against their governments and global capitalism ๐ŸŽ„๐Ÿ”ดโšซโšช๐ŸŸข๐ŸŽ„
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Commie Tommy
3 years
As a construction worker and a unionist, I reckon it's long past time for John Setka to go.
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Commie Tommy
3 years
My new article on the role of #Anarchists in the Italian Biennio Rosso. A fascinating period where #anarchism (in my opinion) played a more revolutionary role than #Marxism . Thanks to the comrades who helped me with edits and fact checks.
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Commie Tommy
7 months
Hell yes
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Matt
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School strike for Palestine - huge numbers holding space in Melbourne Central.
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Commie Tommy
3 years
Heres my take. We won't see any decent action on climate change until we rebuild the union movement. Governments and business don't do shit until they're forced to. Whats the only thing that can force the hand of states and billionaires you ask? Organised labour.
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Commie Tommy
6 months
From Gaza to Rojava, fuck imperialism.
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โ€ผ๏ธ Urgentโ€ผ๏ธ The Turkish airforce has just carried out an airstrike against a hospital that is in cooperation with the >Doctors without Borders< organisation and the Kurdish Red Crescent humanitarian aid organisation.
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Commie Tommy
2 years
Some (historically ignorant) Marxists be like: "anarchists are against United Fronts" Italian anarchists: publish an entire volume of Malatestas works entitled the United Proletarian Front.
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Commie Tommy
1 year
People say construction workers are lazy yet heres a cop literally asleep on the job
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Detritus Books
1 year
You don't have to go home but you can't stay here.
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Commie Tommy
3 years
65 years ago, on the 27-29th of October, 1956 the founding conference of the Anarchist Federation of Uruguay was held. Known for developing the theory of "especifismo", the contributions of the FAU in the struggle for socialism and freedom are immense.
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Commie Tommy
1 year
I agree!
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Commie Tommy
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Working in Geelong and some weirdo is flying an East German flag lol
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Commie Tommy
3 years
Making Geelong prettier
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Commie Tommy
3 years
I've written a new article on anarchism and collaborative struggle with other tendencies. It touches on historical moments in Italy, Spain and Uruguay. Hopefully it's a useful contribution to the movement!
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Commie Tommy
4 years
@anarchopac The next line "...to be kind was what anarchy meant to him." So wholesome.
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Commie Tommy
3 years
Imagine if we made an anarchist federation called Australia New Zealand Anarchist Communists, aka, ANZAC, and how much that would piss off right wingers.
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Commie Tommy
2 years
Finished reading Marxism in a Lost Century: A Biography of Paul Mattick by Gary Roth. Almost the exact opposite of the biography I recently read on Pannekoek, Roth's book is almost solely dedicated to Matticks personal life and not his ideas.
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Commie Tommy
9 months
I just finished reading 'Means and Ends: The revolutionary practice of anarchism in Europe and the United States' by @anarchopac and published by @AKPressDistro Bakers history focuses on the period from 1868-1939. ๐Ÿงต
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Commie Tommy
3 years
I've written a new biography of Bolshevik left-communist Gavril Miasnikov and his faction, the Workers Group of the Russian Communist Party.
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Commie Tommy
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Hey Geelong you're great. Also, love that the union movement down here actually turns out. X
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Commie Tommy
6 months
You know who you are
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Commie Tommy
3 years
The Vic government shut down all construction lunch sheds. In response workers in the city are taking smoko on the streets. ๐Ÿ˜‚
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Commie Tommy
2 years
How many 'Libertarians' know that the word was synonymous with 'anarchist-communist' originally?
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Commie Tommy
1 month
Should I delete my account now?
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Commie Tommy
1 year
Happy Spanish Revolution day!
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Commie Tommy
11 months
Me: I've got lots of chores to do today. Might check the mailbox before I head out. Uh oh.
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Commie Tommy
5 months
I fear that despite being 'the largest antiwar movement in history's (according to some) the lack of *mass* escalation will render Palestinian solidarity as ineffective as the anti Iraq war movement.
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Commie Tommy
3 years
The dumbest take right now is construction workers are paid too much. Construction shouldn't be 1 of few industries where working ppl make a decent living. It's not our fault yr industry is underpaid. Join your union and fight for the conditions and pay you deserve!
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Commie Tommy
1 year
Yesterday I finished reading @SteveWright1958 's book "The Weight of the Printed Word: Text, Context and Militancy in Italian Operaismo." Published by @haymarketbooks WotPW is Wrights second book on Operaismo and Autonomist Marxism.
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Commie Tommy
4 years
Another legend down. Rest in Power Stuart Christie. Christie was arrested at the age of 18 in Spain for attempting to blow up fascist dictator Franco. Eventually released back to the UK the Scotsman would continue the fight for anarchism his entire life.
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Commie Tommy
1 year
Nestor Makhno, the famous anti-proletarian.
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Commie Tommy
3 years
Apparently we are setting up the Xmas tree already
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Commie Tommy
3 years
The earlier tunnel was dug when infamous Italian anarchist Miguel Roscigna had escaped from the very same prison. In '71, as the Tupamaro and FAU militants escaped, they left a note pinned to the wall where the two tunnels intersected: โ€œTWO GENERATIONS, ONE DESTINY: FREEDOM.โ€
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Commie Tommy
2 years
Aw hell yea I am officially a father. ๐Ÿ™Œ
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Commie Tommy
1 month
Schwarzbards assassination of Petlyura was an all time classic. ๐Ÿซก
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Vladyslav Starodubtsev
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#OTD 1879 Symon Petlyura was born. A journalist & young revolutionary, he was forced to become a military leader during Ukr Rev. A moderate socialist, he was in many political conflicts, but in the end was loyal to Rada. He had both positive & negative sides that affected history
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Commie Tommy
8 months
Finished read The Story of Palestine by Vashti Fox of @RedFlag_SA Its v good, if occasionally a touch brief on minor topics. The writing is both clear & emotive. If you're new to socialist politics and their relationship w Palestinian liberation it's a very good place to start.
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Commie Tommy
2 years
Melbourne's Abolish the Monarchy rally.
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Commie Tommy
2 years
Sentences like 'capital acting capitalistically' suggest he struggled to articulate difficult concepts in a foreign language, but persevered for the sake of articulating council communist arguments. Issues with his language skills do not detract from what Mattick has to say.
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Commie Tommy
2 years
I wrote a short article about Francesco Fantin, Italian migrant anarchism & antifascism in Australia. Fantin worked in textile factories in Italy & Geelong + cut sugarcane in North Queensland. He was murdered in an Australian internment camp during WWII.
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Commie Tommy
2 years
The book begins with articles such as 'Karl Kautsky: From Marx to Hitler', 'Luxemburg versus Lenin' and his famous 'Bolshevism and Stalinism.' To a degree these elucidate the opinions of the German 'ultra'-Left and are still worthwhile reading today.
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Commie Tommy
2 years
Anti-Bolshevik Communism is a collection of essays from across the span of Mattick's life in the USA, following his departure from Germany in the 20s where he had been a member of the Communist Workers Party (KAPD).
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Commie Tommy
2 years
Juan Carlos Mechoso, founding member of the Anarchist Federation of Uruguay and theorist of Especifismo anarchism has passed away. Rest in Power, comrade.
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Commie Tommy
1 year
@Ozwobbly Also just such a badass dude. Led armed insurrections, gave medical aid during plagues and icecream for the kids lol. In Williams book on Gramsci and Italian Marxism he says when Malatesta returned to Italy he was greeted by massive crowds with giant red flags
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Commie Tommy
6 months
Haven't seen anything on social media so I'll just post about it - dockworkers from @MaritimeUnionAU Geelong walking off the job today for 24 hours. Picket + picnic at Corio Quay gates at 11am. ๐Ÿ‘โœŠ
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Commie Tommy
2 years
While some of Mattick's political writing is not as convincing as his economic analysis, it's a good book and worth considering how council communist views grappled with the world post-German revolution.
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Commie Tommy
9 months
Some photos from the Melbourne rally for Palestine today. Not easy to shoot while minding a toddler but this is what I got. ๐Ÿ’
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Commie Tommy
8 months
Can Germans be on the right side of history just once
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DJ Malatesta
8 months
Free Hamburg from hipsters ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜†
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Commie Tommy
2 years
Took about 10 hours for someone to criticise my pamphlet as an anarchist-marxist synthesis, which is longer than I expected. Let me be clear - anarchism has always been explicitly heavily influenced by Marx - and so it should be.
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Commie Tommy
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From Geelong to Palestine...
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2 years
โ€œ[The] black flag is the flag of strikes and the flag of those who are hungry.โ€ - Louise Michel
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Commie Tommy
3 years
On the 26th September, 1976, six members of the Uruguayan Anarchist Federation were kidnapped, tortured and eventually executed by the Argentine military. During Operation Condor, the Argentine dictatorship was instrumental in persecuting Uruguayan dissidents.
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Commie Tommy
3 years
@BGOnTheScene Can't help but feel they'd be better off putting their time into fighting for some healthcare eh
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Commie Tommy
2 months
Once I wandered into an ALP conference totally wasted with a small group of mates and we sang 'youre all traitors, you're all traitors, you're all traitors to your class!' and it was real fun but let me tell you it was no where near as fun as today looked. Fuckin goodonyas!
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Commie Tommy
3 years
Planning on heading along to the Pro-Vax, Anti-Fascist rallies on the weekend? If you're new to antifascism or even if you've been around the traps for a while, this little guide is immensely useful for good on-the-day practice. #antifascism #FCKNZS
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Commie Tommy
2 years
It was upon arrival in the USA that Mattick made an effort to write in English, and the early essays in Anti-Bolshevik Communism reflect his difficulty with the English language.
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Commie Tommy
3 years
Anarchist-Communists in Australia are Pro-Vax, Pro-Union and Anti-Fascist! #dontscabgetthejab #tradies4health
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Commie Tommy
3 months
Just wanted to announce that I've joined Victorian Socialists and intend to contest the next Geelong elections
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Commie Tommy
8 months
Some photos from the #FreePalestine rally in #Geelong yesterday.
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Commie Tommy
2 years
One of the things I like most about Bakunin is his constant stress that structures, not individuals or their personal ideas, are at the root of social problems. That solving them is not a matter of violence or convincing argument, but social revolution.
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Commie Tommy
3 years
When Malatesta returned to Italy during the Biennio Rosso, he was greeted at the docks by massive crowds with red flags. The radical press heralded him the "Lenin of Italy." By the time Lenin died, Malatesta wrote in Umanitร  Nova: โ€œLenin is dead, long live Liberty!โ€
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Commie Tommy
2 years
The book, ending with the essay, finishes on a note of hope; that the contradictions of capitalism make struggle inevitable, and the potential for a better world persists.
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Commie Tommy
9 months
If anyone is interested I'll be hosting a tri-weekly reading group online. Please comment or send me a DM. We will be starting @anarchopac and @AKPressDistro 's Means and Ends in three weeks time.
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Commie Tommy
2 years
'Workers Control', which rounds out the book, is a fantastic essay which covers a broad array of topics with ease; the Russian and German Revolutions, Syndicalism, Soviets and Co-Operatives and Yugoslav Market Socialism.
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Commie Tommy
3 years
This year is the hundredth anniversary of the Krondstat uprising. Though history is written by the victors, those victories can turn out to be defeats. So it goes with the Bolsheviks and death of the Russian revolution.
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Commie Tommy
1 year
Bookshops are so full of liberal bullshit these days. You can tell by the philosophy section being full of countless versions of 'how to find meaning in your bullshit middle class life'.
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Commie Tommy
3 months
Tankie brain means you worship Lenin but can't compute that this book was about other Marxists not anarchists.
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Anarchildren will NEVER forgive Lenin for being RIGHT.
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Commie Tommy
2 years
'Marxism and the New Physics' tackles the relationship between science and Marxism in the East (USSR & Socialist China) and West, reflect some of the insights of Anton Pannekoek in particular but also Karl Korsch.
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Lewis Waller
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What are your favourite books on Marx, Marxism, and critiques of Marx and Marxism?
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Commie Tommy
1 year
Three years ago there was barely an organised anarchist presence to speak of in Australia and now there's a network across most east coast cities + presence in many movements & unions, & international orgs are referencing Oz theory.
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Commie Tommy
2 years
Very much enjoying the Paul Mattick biography I am reading at the moment. This anecdote reminds me of when Italian anarchists sparked armed occupations of the ports in the lead up to the Biennio Rosso, refusing to load arms being sent to fight the Bolsheviks.
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