The twine unwinds (150 years on, perhaps)


Imagined last lines to The Communisation Manifesto:

Workers of the world, self-abolish!

(Or, for the Gordian knot of now: workers of the world, untie! The rope doesn't wait for the King's sword, instead unravels its own solution...)

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  1. "Workers of all countries, call it a day!"

    from http://lettersjournal.org/manifestoagainstlabour.html

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  2. Reminds me of the Anti-Labour party from Sterling's Islands in the Net. Militants carried banners aloft that read "workers of the world, relax!" (an allusion to Bob Black, I think, and not quite the right tone, no?).

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  3. Nasir: fucking great, and probably a bit of snappier chant than self-abolish...

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  4. Isaac:
    indeed, "relax" doesn't quite capture the need for militant relaxation: insurrection, first, chilling out, second. Has more of the "relax, stop fussing" tone.

    Perhaps, let's go old-school Lafargue, for work refusal that grinds thinks to a napping siesta halt: "Workers of the world, laze about!"

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  5. Keeping with the idea of the abolition the capital relation as an knot to be untied or simply hacked through, I was thinking: "Workers of the world, cut loose!" or, possibly, "get loose," with all the wildness and the hint of damned serious joy, these expressions might imply....

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  6. Jason:

    so pretty much, the insurrection will sound like this:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oirbbFmK28

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  7. That's right, like that but chopped and screwed...

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