Commune // Invitation

Here are some things I wrote and made.  Use them if you want.  More importantly, organize for liberation, don't just keep eating the regurgitated image of yourself in the form of so called representation.  Fuck every system of control, coercion and containment.  We were meant for the stars.  See you there, space cowboy.

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Like all my posters, made at 11x17 for printing/wheatpasting (mix flour and water, go out and make your space more free).  If you need a higher resolution version, message me. Background photo also by me.

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Found this old gem in a drawer, it wanted to be shared

Funny story, this was the first image I ever tried to carve into a woodcut print.  I forgot the part about how the image prints as a mirror of itself, so all the writing was completely backwards...

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Hi, i'm interested in learning more about autonomism and i was wondering if you could point to some books and resources. I would really apreciate it.

Hi!  Thanks for asking.  Autonomism isn’t totally crystallized into a specific program or theory, probably for the better.  I’ll be making some work soon to express some of my personal analysis more clearly.  In the meantime, projects like that of the Zapatistas and the free territory in Rojava, Kurdistan, or the work of Cooperation Jackson reflect something of the promise I see in autonomous communism.  Demand Utopia is a good group to look into.  And of course the Black Panther Party.  The work of Raul Zibechi could also be helpful.  There was an Autonomia movement in Italy in the 70′s that you could find some information on too, though I have yet to understand what set them apart.For me the value of autonomy specifically is in establishing immediate power that can be used as a springboard to engage in other arenas of power struggle.  I think the working class needs to fight on all fronts:  National politics, state and city politics, and direct struggles at work and in the neighborhood.  I think that establishing actual autonomous territory and building direct-action networks on the street level should not be an end in itself, but should also be the militant base of an eyes-open engagement with pushing for control in electoral politics, as miserable as that arena will be compared to our utopias.I mean this all as a synthesis that takes seriously both the need for establishing horizontal, free communism and direct working class power now in every way we can, while also being able to organize voting power to fight within the bourgeois state structure for working class demands without being swallowed up and co-opted by the normal electoral mobilization organs of, for instance, the Democratic Party.

I hope any of this is helpful to you.

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I was given a patch of your hammer/sickle/bolt cutters and i love it! Can i find you on other social media or etsy so i can support you?

commvenus,

I deeply appreciate you taking the time to tell me!  I’m trying to finish a dissertation and have been neglecting my artwork.  I promise to share when I get etsy or something else going!  In the meantime, wishing you love and luck out there.

-AC

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Friends and comrades (Maoists especially), you probably have lots of great ideas but please stop writing about them like you’re role-playing as a Great Revolutionary Theorist from some other time and place.  Just write the way you would talk to someone you don’t know very well.  I really hope this isn’t the way you talk to people.  The right is doing a better job writing in ways that don’t seem weird and culty.  Please don’t write for your echo-chamber, I really want most of you lefties to grow your groups and projects.

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hey! a question about the Training To Fight poster with the sword going through the swastika, did you create that and if so, would you consider making it a buyable poster/print/tshirt ? im very interested

Hey there!  I did make it and will someday make patches and shirts with it (actually considering making a collection of antifa training designs).  In the meantime, it’s a pretty easy design to screenprint yourself if you can get the gear!

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Thank you!

There are a lot more followers on this blog than I ever thought there would be!  someday when I have more free time I’d like to try to make part of my living selling some art, so I very much appreciate everyone who has found this place and shared my work.  I decided to express my gratitude with a few random sketches from this year’s notebook.

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The whole life of those societies in which modern conditions of production prevail presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. All that once was directly lived has become mere representation.

Ryan Seacrest, probably

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initial sketch

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gonna go rally against the landlords and rental corporations that are devouring all the hours of our lives.  gonna try to get the city to do rent control, but they probably won’t.  gonna go get angry enough to make serious plans, and someday our schemes to take it all back from them come to fruition.

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Just letting you know, I’m about to open an etsy with my art partner where you’ll be able to find these designs on prints, patches, buttons and stickers.  Making some $cratch would help me put more time into art and political work instead of capitalist work. Also, I do take requests for art and designs, and I’d be happy to be hired to design a tattoo or do other design work if anyone were ever interested.

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Prepare, today.  Love and power to the antifascist resistance.

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Happy Spring, little blossoms

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Sculpture is a new medium for me.  I’m making utopian/dystopian artifacts from the future using garbage, a lot of it from creeks and oceans, and donated waste objects.

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not art from me, but a pretty beautiful museum piece.  Who knew the natural history museum wrote such good poetic social art?