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27. Martin K. of a neighbourhood assembly in Buenos Aires, interviewed by
Marina Sitrin: Sitrin (2005: 139; 2006: 108). For a general reflection on the
neighbourhood assemblies of the Argentinian uprising, see Ouviiia (2002).
28. On the importance of rejecting the notion of sacrifice as the basis for anticapitalism,
see Vaneigem (196711994).
29. The cooperative has published a book describing its principles of
organisation: Cecosesola (2003).
30. For a discussion of the reproduction of psychological problems within the
specific context of the pro-Zapatista groups in Guadalajara, see Sandoval
(2007). On the complex relation between revolt and subjectivity in the
uprising in Argentina, see Fernandez et al. (2006).
31. I use 'value' here in the sense of the category of political economy criticised
by Marx. For a broader discussion of value in this and other senses, see De
Angelis (2007).
32. In this sense, see especially Rubin (1928/1972) and Sohn-Rethel (1978).
33. For a more developed discussion of the relation between the state and
value, see the state derivation debate and especially Holloway and Picciotto
(1978).
34. Central planning has not been rational because it has always been state
planning. And it cannot be central, because even territorial units as large
as the USSR or China are still fragments of the world society. Neither of
these huge countries could resist the onslaught of value: in both cases,
value emerged triumphant, in the collapse of the USSR on the one hand,
the commodification of Chinese society on the other. In the case of Cuba,
value and its embodiment, money, lay siege even more effectively than the
US blockade. The idea of state planning as an alternative to the law of
value is based on the totally fallacious idea that the state is universal, that
each state encloses 'its' society. It is clearer now than ever that this is not
the case, but it never was.
35. On the problems of receiving funding from non-state foundations, see
INCITE! (2007).
36. On the experience of Zanon, see Aiziczon (2009).
37. Events like the anti-summit demonstrations and the world and regional
Social Forums play an important part in the formation of these networks
of support and inspiration.
38. Thus De Angelis (2000): 'rather than the old solidarity paradigm, a better
description of the way different groups and movements tend to enter into
relation with one another is the one provided by what an Aboriginal women
said to those coming to her people to offer solidarity:
'If you have come here to help me
You are wasting your time ...
But if you have come because
Your liberation is bound up with mine
Then let us work together.'
39. On this, see Mance (2007).
THESIS 10
1. For a rather different reflection on the difficulties of the movement in the
present situation, see Colectivo Situaciones (2009).
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