forward implies progress whereas were really rearranging

after what looks to our audience
like a brief hiatus
we are relaunching
this blog

as the offical arm
of forbidden books press

our plan is to publish books
on 100% home recycled paper
hand-bound
on a home made printing press
built from scavenged parts

lofty
yes
if you think of
digging in the garbage
as lofty

which yknow
you should

our structure
is a collective of volunteers
rag & bone folks
hippies
book lovers

the books will be free
the distribution will be free
the production will be free

or as near possible
as we can make it

point being to challenge
premise
that all things must come at a cost
suck on it capitalism
its a labor of love
in the face of ebooks & crapjects

we will accept solicitations at
forbiddenbooks0@gmail.com

on this blog we will continue to publish

information on our projects
on the publishing industry in general
on language use and misuse

we look forward to conspiring with you


yours for the revolution
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it is time for a new secret plan

april for writing
may for projects

this

fig28a freedom of the press belongs to those who own one

this

fig28b tree soup

& then...?

yours for the revolution
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only a moral interpretation of phenomena -

advice animals
you know

theyre only aphorisms
collectivized & anonymized

the characters -
well

every profound spirit needs a mask
he would be nonplussed
im sure

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link minded folks

organizing as if social relations matter

its always vindicative
when i find someone thinking
along lines
i also walk

Organizing, good organizing, is to my mind the slow, steady, one-on-one building of relations and interconnections that are at odds with how people are treated under capitalism.
go on
im listening

Instead of instrumentalizing people for what they can give us or do for us, we look to each other as having worth unto ourselves, and for how we can cement relations of sociability, collaboration, and solidarity

Expedient activism falls apart under its own flimsy weight; there’s little there to sustain it, especially when the going inevitably gets rough or disappointing. Here, patient and what appears to be joyful organizing might just have a fighting chance of leaving something in its wake
that speaks to my experiences
socialist sectarianism

beliefs in changing
behavior & culture
creative relationships
transcend isolation

it takes work
says cindy milstein
something i am learning also
from the revolution starts
at home

reaching out
finding people
putting effort
not into sign
waving ranting
spectaclework

socalled actions
recognizing instead
building the world we want
begins with living the life
we believe in

As now-deferred prospective student after student got up to read their varied, often-eloquent remarks, or have them read by a current Cooper Union student or an alumni, for upward of an hour, it became clearer and clearer how much work went into finding, educating, involving, and gaining the support and participation of these frequently far-afieldpotential students.
not
mind you
a population
who would seem
accessible useful
in an
expedient way

beautiful
also

That no tuition, even within a hierarchical and select structure, still manages to engender a tangible freedom to imagine social goodness, and the freedom (of thought and financial constraints) to organize in more imaginative as well as qualitative ways
in the face
of the anarchists
& far leftists
not though the sectarian socialists
in this case

but in the face
of those who want to bring it
all down now now now
with a brick

yes yes yes
sympathies
we want it to be so easy
revolution happens suddenlike
but there must be
work lessons compromise
failures effort love
changing culture
changing material
changing structure

i look forward to reading more
from this beautiful blog

yours for the revolution
forbidden books

all these rappers sound the same

b in the d
there was a soviet union
some of you remember it

we
extraordinarily blessed people
of united states of america
we were free

as demonstrated
by the vast diversity
of our prodcuts

communism
we were told
are still told

fig11a in soviet russia fashion shows you

leads to generic
brown label
monotony
rationing shortages conformity
&c &c &c

desire for blue jeans
& david hasselhoff dressed in christmas lights
brought down
the whole idea of

collectivism

but it isnt collectivism
that stifles
it is bureaucracy

ask anyone in line
at the dmv

i have proof

right here

i love the twin cities
hasselhoff can eat it

doomtree is the freshest
most alive hiphop
i have heard in my life
no single rapper sounds alike
they stand out from the mass
produced by record labels
out from the assembly line
that pumps rap into the ghetto
like a drug like crack like propaganda

this is i think the perfect dynamic
of individualism collectivism

coming together to showcase talent
to build something evolutionary
to have one anothers backs & beats
could it be
doomtree shows us another way

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how to recruit

i spent a number of years in a marxist organization

i have a number of proleftist critiques & contributions

you can read other posts along these topics under the postmarxist critique label

fig5a black panther brandishing their weapons

when young black males
approached the black panthers
asking to be armed

leadership would hand them books

but why were they approached to begin with?

one thing i always failed to understand
about insular marxist groups today
was focus on recruitment
& political education

to the exclusion of doing good

what the panthers understood
was that in order to make a name
they had to be recognized

so they would serve food
to schoolchildren
they would follow the cops
to make sure
the population was not being abused

they found needs
in the population they wanted
to recruit
filled them
not with the primary goal
of recruitment
but of service

radical service

breaking with the logic
of capitalism
in action not just propaganda
what anarchists call propaganda
of the deed
which is usually taken to mean violence
what should actually mean
integrity

instead

fig5b excuse me maam would you like some expensive union printed wrapping paper?

the insular marxist group
tries to distinguish itself with its published material
and sell it to people who couldnt
care less

ostensibly
recruiting the socalled politically
radicalized layers
of society

a lot of time is spent writing these papers
reading politcal material
organizing demonstrations
where hopefully these radicalized
layers will magically show up
looking for any answers

getting the same old answers

aside from flashpoints
such as occupy
one rarely sees new faces
at specifically political events

theyre doorknocking the converts

you dont prove the value of your politics
with polemics

you prove it in the
everyday
struggle

fig5c excuse me maam can i interest you in some communist goods and services?

do good
where there is evil

be radical
where there is convention

be collaborative
where there is competition

undermine the system where you are
fight
as the anarchists say
where you stand

the capitalists
who by the way
have the monopoly on goods and services
call this advertising
their power stems from the provisions
created by their economic system
& is perpetuated
in the consumer mind by advertising

you dont undermine the economic system
without building alternative sources
of goods and services
which by their collaborative manufacture
& provision
are superior in quality quantity
distribution community & satisfaction

the need for advertising
will erode along with the capitalist model
as it is supplanted by an increase
in communal manufacture

one service in the name of the downtrodden
is worth all the socialist papers
in the world

yours for the revolution
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