Cass Boe’s Reviews > Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 > Status Update
Cass Boe
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"The leap to communist relations...occurred without a mediating 'transition period.' Communization diverged sharply from many preexisting left models of anticapitalist transition. Self-identified communists and anarchists had varied visions of revolutionary social change... All such frameworks proved inadequate to understand the direct, antimarket, and antistate character of the insurrection" (13)
— Apr 27, 2023 09:00PM
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Cass Boe
is on page 239 of 256
"Nostalgia is a toxin for that expansive visioning that needs to happen. We need to be done with nostalgia" (239)
Wow. What an incredible book!
— Dec 04, 2023 10:27PM
Wow. What an incredible book!
Cass Boe
is on page 141 of 256
"I remembered these pamphlets that people would hand out... Things about how the system was broken, how it was capitalism, etc. I always thought, "I don't have time for this" or "I don't have energy for this." But then I realized, "I don't have time ~because~ of this. I don't have energy ~because~ of this." This system had taken everything from me, from us...It had even taken ~me~ away from me" (140-141)
— May 02, 2023 04:33PM
Cass Boe
is on page 13 of 256
"there were groups who identified as communists...These groups and their rhetorical and theoretical framework largely played only a marginal role in the insurrections. Instead, the horror of crisis and the dynamics of struggle propelled mass political development, Increasingly over the course of the decade, these insurrections took on a communist character" (10)
I've been thinking about this quote for months.
— Apr 27, 2023 08:56PM
I've been thinking about this quote for months.
