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THE
RED COLLECTIVE
Formed on the occasion of the one hundred and fiftieth year of the
publication of The Manifesto of The Communist Party, the RED
COLLECTIVE is an international cadre of revolutionary Marxists committed
to class struggle and producing class consciousness across national
boundaries by means of a "ruthless critique of everything
existing" under the regime of capital and wage labor. One of the
goals of the RED COLLECTIVE is to produce critique-al knowledges that
guide all wage laborers in their unyielding struggles to end private
ownership of the means of production and usher in international
communism. THE RED CRITIQUE
In
the Spring of 2001 The Red Collective published the inaugural issue of THE
RED CRITIQUE. THE
RED CRITIQUE aims
at red-ing social and cultural theory for new revolutionary praxis. THE
RED CRITIQUE will publish theoretical essays engaging issues from
labor to sexuality; from (cyber)colonialism to emerging forms of
fascism; from health care and the welfare-state to
"globalization"; as well as short essays providing Marxist
analysis of the "daily": interpretation of major events,
films, exhibitions of paintings and photography, trends in popular
culture, music and fashion, and discussion of television and emerging
forms of communication and identities on the "web". At a time
when the concept of "materialism" itself is being hybridized
by the dominant bourgeois writings and turned into further grounds for
the "playful", THE RED CRITIQUE will work to publish
historical materialist analyses of contemporary capitalism which
privilege the material--not as the trope of an ahistorical and spectral
matter-ism of "desire", "the body", and
"fantasy"--but as the materialism of "production",
"labor", "need", and "class struggle". THE
RED CRITIQUE is now more than ever before, a necessary task because, given the almost
complete monopoly of the publishing practices by the ruling class and
its surrogates in the knowledge industry, what is represented as the
space of transformation is no longer distinguishable from the strategies
of appeasement, reconciliation by negotiations and the pragmatic
compromises of the North-Atlantic bourgeois left. THE RED CRITIQUE continues the 150 years of unceasing struggle for international communism. |