Monthly Archives: September 2013

“Wer hat uns verraten?”: Speculations on the imminent German Election

“Who’s done us in?” This ambiguous, and yet telling, interrogative was said to’ve stood on Karl Liebknecht’s desk in Berlin. Marc Uwe Kling, a contemporary political singer, comments that “a poster of the slogan is also over Oskar Lafontaine’s desk”. … Continue reading

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Response to Gavin’s “Why I am no longer an anarchist”

The following text is a response to the article “Why I am no longer an anarchist” published on 3 August by Gavin Mendel-Gleason here. I don’t aspire to respond to every point made in that text, but to develop points … Continue reading

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Production and consumption: differences in orientation

A previous article on Spirit of Contradiction dealt with the issue of types of revolutions drawing the fundamental distinction between insurrection, socialisation in production and communisation in consumption. Some of these ideas were expounded on by earlier Marxists when confronting … Continue reading

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Spirit of Contradiction has outgrown its previous shared hosting solution, and so we’ve moved it. This may result in some weird behaviour for a couple of days while configuration is taking place. The result will be a much much faster … Continue reading

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