FE Author: Jim Feast

a review of Red Squared Montreal: A Fictional Chronicle by Norman Nawrocki. Black Rose Books, 2023

a review of The Lady Anarchist Café: Poems and Stories by Lorraine Schein. Autonomedia, 2022

A review of Digigram by Barbara Henning. United Artists Books 2020 Many poets have used broad strokes to deplore the current reactionary environment (as Eliot Katz does so superbly in President Predator), expressing their outrage, disgust and sadness, but Barbara …

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a review of Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons by Silvia Federici, Foreword by Peter Linebaugh. PM Press, 2019

We are all familiar with the ruthless stereotyping and blatant falsification of anarchism in the mass media employing out-dated, long exploded cliches such as that anarchists are solely interested in destruction, fueled by an infantile rage. It was these stereotypes …

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Cultural theorist Raymond Williams has suggested that the technology for television was available years before it was utilized. It was held back because the conditions for it were not ripe yet.

I begin with two insights. Global systems theorist, Immanuel Wallerstein, argues that throughout capitalist history the working class has been divided into a proletariat, which makes a living solely through waged labor, and a semi-proletariat which in its contemporary incarnation, …

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There is a staple of the Yiddish theater written in 1921 entitled, The Golem (sort of a Jewish Frankenstein). It still remains quite popular in translation including a 2002 Off-Broadway run. I saw it performed in 1984 at a free …

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My experiences on a recent trip to The Gambia on Africa’s west-central coast, brought to mind the historic leftist dream that the state will wither away once workers have overturned capitalism.

a review of The Impossible Community: Realizing Communitarian Anarchism by John P. Clark. Bloomsbury, 2013, 272 pp., $30 paper; $120 hardback; bloomsbury.com