Contact
- Website
- http://commiecurmudgeon.wordpress.com
- Website 2
- http://roughinhere.wordpress.com
Personal
- About me
(Wrote a bunch of stuff here at first but decided...better to put that in my intro or something.)
- Gender
- Male
- Favourite books
- Lipstick Traces by Greil Marcus, The Trial by Franz Kafka, Merry Men by Carolyn Chute, Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, Vermilion Sands by J.G. Ballard, Ocean of Sound by David Toop, The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter, The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
- Favourite films
- I like lots of old Bollywood and Tamil music-and-dance movies made in the 1950s and '60s. Even though the only language I know is English... I'll watch anythnig with Padmini in it, with or without subtitles.
- Age
- 40 - 49
- Music
- M.I.A., Natacha Atlas, DJ /Rupture, Transglobal Underground, Dillinger, Dead Can Dance, Brian Eno
- Dislikes
- Too many to list right now.
Networking and politics
- Political label
- libertarian socialist, libertarian Marxist, internationalist, council communist
- Country and town
- U.S.A., New York City
- Region
- North America
- Political group membership
- AMP Publishing (Infoshop.org), Mayday Books Collective
- Occupation
- precarious proofreader, rarely paid writer/social commenter/pop music critic
- What do your politics mean to you?
My personal politics influence the way I look at everything,
- Favourite thinkers
- Karl Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, Anton Pannekoek, Sylvia Pankhurst, Andre Gorz, Lewis Mumford, Ivan Illich, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Orwell, Kamunist Kranti
- Favourite political books
- The German Ideology by Marx and Engels, Grundrisse by Karl Marx, The Junius Pamphlet by Rosa Luxemburg, Workers Councils by Anton Pannekoek, Ecology as Politics by Andre Gorz, Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich
- Comrades re-united - political groups you were a member of
- Direct Action Network Labor Solidarity Working Group, Industrial Workers of the World, InterGalactic Anarchist Convention Organizing Collective, Common Wheel Collective, New School for Pluralistic Anti-Capitalist Education
- Comrades re-united - further information
For various reasons, I have decided not to list all of them. Regarding the ones I listed...
The Common Wheel Collective (two of us) wrote the semi-known Collective Book on Collective Process
I don't really do anything for AMP/Infoshop, but it has plans for a magazine that I may be working on sometime.
I wasn't a member of Mayday Books for a while and then rejoined at a time when some people might think it no longer exists. But I have reasons to believe it will come back in an interesting way...
History
- Member for
- 1 year 23 weeks