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ARRGH!

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About Me

ARRGH! (the Area Radical Reading Group of Hartford) is an anti-authoritarian, socialist, anti-racist, feminist radical reading group in Hartford. It's our goal to contribute to the radical project through education, reflection, study, and, of course, on-the-ground struggle against capitalism, the state, patriarchy, white supremacy, and the hetero-normative imperative. We seek like-minded people and the curious bystander to study and learn with.

My Interests

Socialism, feminism, anti-racism, queer rights, communism, anarchism, radicalism, anti-colonialism, immigrant rights, ism ism ism

I'd like to meet:

Radicals and the curious!

Announcement!!!!!
ARRGH's 9th meeting will be Wednesday June 4th, 8 o' clock
at milo's house(32 Garden Lane, West Hartford...860.978.3562)

Readings in Primitivism
EXCERPT:"It is here that a primitivist alternative has begun to emerge. Ever-growing documentation of human prehistory as a very long period of largely non-alienated life stands in sharp contrast to the increasingly stark failures of untenable modernity. (33) In the context of his discussion of the limitations of Habermas, Joel Whitebook wrote: “It may be that the scope of and depth of the social and ecological crisis are so great that nothing short of an epochal transformation of world views will be commensurate with them.”(34) Since that time, Castoriadis has concluded that a radical transformation will “have to launch an attack on the division of labor in its hitherto known forms.” (35) Division of labor, slowly emerging through prehistory, was the foundation of domestication and continues to drive the technological imperative forward. The challenge is to disprove George Grant’s thesis that this is “a world where only catastrophe can slow the unfolding of the potentialities of technique,” (36) and to actualize Kamoouh’s judgment that revolution can only be redefined against progress. "

Hope to see you there!!

Why Primitivism?

and

Against Mass Society

Music:

Yes, please.

Movies:

Matewan, Libertarias, Reds, Orwell Rolls in His Grave, Manufacturing Consent

Television:

No thank you.

Books:

The more, the better!

Heroes:

Fighters, single moms, wage slaves, gender outlaws, anti-colonialists, radicals of most stripes.