[Presenting our latest organic radical profile, on Sri Aurobindo] “We must be governed by the guide within rather than by the opinions of men” Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950) was in many ways the epitome of an organic radical inspiration. On the one hand, he was a fiercely determined opponent of the global imperialist system, like Mohandas Gandhi, Bharatan […]
by W.D. James Marx and Engels famously begin The Communist Manifesto (1844) with the provocative invocation: “A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of communism.” To stick with the Marxist-Hegelian terminology, I think this is just one manifestation of a more enduring spectre or ghost or spirit that has haunted us for a very long time. The Organic Radicalism website […]
A brand new profile has now gone live on the Organic Radicals site, looking at Fredy Perlman, who died in 1985 at the age of 50. The anarchist author and publisher, co-founder of Black & Red Books in Detroit, USA, fiercely and eloquently condemned the modern system of artifice, destruction and exploitation. “The Progress of […]
Forty-five years ago, dissident French thinker Jacques Ellul wrote about all the contradictions and difficulties involved in maintaining what he called the “scientific-state-techno-economical complex”. Looking ahead, he wondered out loud how it could ever be kept functioning and expanding in the future. He concluded, with foresight which seems uncanny in the 2020s: “In truth, there […]
by Paul Cudenec One of the most sickening aspects of the Covid scam has been the fanatical support for the operation from the entity that calls itself “the left”. I have been writing about this since April 2020 and there are various articles on the Winter Oak site seeking to discover exactly why “official” left/anarchist positions align so closely […] […]