*** José Martí, Cuba, and the Anarchists

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May they not bury me in darkness

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*** The species being of anarchist economics

<strong>Capitalist Crisis and Anarchist Economics, a talk by Wayne Price on August 20th, 2013 in Rochester, New York at the Flying Squirrel Community Space</strong>

Last Tuesday I attended a talk by Wayne Price on the <em>Capitalist Crisis and Anarchist Economics</em> which also served as a entry point for his newly published book <em>The Value of Radical Theory: An Anarchist Introduction to Marx's Critique of Political Economy</em> hosted by “your friendly neighborhood” anarchist organization, Rochester Red and Black. I must say, they were friendly and the Flying Squirrel is a pretty nice place for Rochester to have. I also picked up a copy of the his new book, but haven't read past the first fifty pages yet, although the introduction has so far, been the most interesting. What follows is more of a look into his talk and some questions I had before and afterwards.

*** Letters of Insurgents: A brief commentary

authors note: <em>This text was originally an attempt at an online book reading & discussion over at http://insurgentsummer.org/ . The site is unfortunately currently down as of December 2013 (and before), but one can still process the gems of wisdom from the wonderful Internet Archive page lookup. It was a series of blog entries that have since been edited with many revisions and changes made, but still keeping the overall flavour. Times have changed, my writing was really bad - it hopefully is a little better here; it's still really bad, but the pictures are nice.</em>

**** Part One

*** Review: Genesee River Rebellion

**** Your friendly neighbourhood anarchists

The Genesee River Rebellion(GRR) is a new quarterly publication from the Rochester Black Rose Anarchist Federation. It's a large 4-page newspaper with 6 articles of varying length that we picked up for free from the distribution bin inside a local Rochester restaurant. There was a stack full of copies placed in the distro and it appears that there are stacks of this paper around a handful of local establishments for the curious reader to find. There also appears to be a subscription based model along with some other perks for those that signed up via the GoFundMe page, which accordingly raised around $1,500 of a $2,000 goal for printing costs, etc. Aesthetically, the local publication looks nice and it was exciting to find an anarchist newspaper circulating around in hand on our way to get some food. On the other hand, there are also some gripes about the publication and the ideas behind it. Below is a brief review of the new publication, along with some shared experiences from the Black Rose Anarchist Federation.

*** Quijote Against the World

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“it’s not like it used to be… nobody cares about change… it don’t matter…” – <em>My First Soul</em>, by Auld Lang Syne

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*** Jorge Luís Borges, Infinity, and the Internet

<strong>Jorge Luís Borges, an Argentinean writer who is well known for his many short stories, some of which discuss such fantastic themes like dreams, libraries, labyrinths, god, and the less fantastic –<em>see also</em>, more real – like los gauchos (imagine Argentinean cowboys) and tigers.</strong>

Borges’s works of fiction, intertwined with the metaphysical have made him one of the most well known writers to come out of the western hemisphere during the 20st century. For the sake of this review, we will look at the relation between Borges, infinity, and the Internet. Five different short stories by Borges which relate to these ideas will all be briefly mentioned; the stories include The Aleph, The Library of Babel, The Garden of Forking Paths, Funes, the Memorious, and the Theme of the Traitor and Hero [all available for free reading on the Internet at the above links].

*** Keepers of the Fire

<strong><em>The Strait: Book of Obenabi. His Songs</em>

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From the pen of Fredy Perlman