Category Archives: Critique of the Left

Revolution: towards a new approach

Posted on 15/04/2013 by yeksmesh

The first article I wrote on this Spirit of Contradiction was one on revolution, and more specifically a critique of the radical leftist approach to revolution. In this article I wish to return to this subject and repeat some of … Continue reading →

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A Call for a Leftist Front a la Mont Pèlerin

Posted on 10/04/2013 by Jerome Nikolai Warren

  Friedrich Hayek ends his famous essay The Intellectuals and Socialism with the question of whether the intellectual revival of liberalism occurring in some places in the post-WWII world (notably in Germany and the Anglophone countries) was “in time”. It … Continue reading →

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War of Position/War of Manoeuvre

Posted on 13/02/2013 by Dara McHugh

The following was a discussion document I prepared for the Irish anarchist organisation, the Workers Solidarity Movement in January 2010, written to shift the organisation’s response to the economic crisis. It set out to state clearly that revolution in the … Continue reading →

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Everything You Know About Decentralisation is Wrong

Posted on 09/01/2013 by Gavin Mendel-Gleason

Decentralisation has become a fashionable notion in modern politics, finding common expression in both the libertarian left and the conservative right. It seems that Greenpeace, local-food advocates , anarchists and even Tories are united in the belief that decentralisation is … Continue reading →

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Cutting the crap: epistemology, science, the left and you

Posted on 19/12/2012 by modulus

Science and the Left Once upon a time the relation between science and socialism was pretty direct and self-explanatory. Not in vain, Marxists call ourselves scientific socialists, when we can stop our unceasing and largely fruitless factional struggles, that is. … Continue reading →

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Against Adhocracy

Posted on 21/11/2012 by Dara McHugh

Should we believe that we should organise outside of parties, outside of the State and outside of Left or Right? That with the right process people can come together as people and produce an impetus towards progressive social change? If … Continue reading →

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Notes on electoralism

Posted on 20/11/2012 by yeksmesh

For the record this article is not an attempt by me to sketch out an all encompassing view on the uses of electoralism in the revolutionary process, as I think that such a view needs to be based upon thorough … Continue reading →

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