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[...] Waiting for another to do the job for us is a way of rationalizing our inactivity. However, the trap to be avoided here is the one of perverse self-instrumentalization: 'We are the ones we are waiting for' does not mean that we have to discover how we are the agent predestined by fate (hist…

[...] It is not enough to remain faithful to the Communist Idea: one has to locate in historical reality the antagonisms that make this Idea a practical urgency. The only true question today is this: do we endorse the predominant acceptance of capitalism as a fact of (human) nature, or does today…

[...] 1730s Paris, to the so-called 'Great Cat Massacre', described by Robert Darnton, when a group of printing apprentices tortured and ritually killed all the cats they could find, including the pet of their master's wife. [...]