Max Fox

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Pinko Issue 4 Launch Party, Tamarack 1501 Harrison St. Oakland, CA, March 14 8 PM
Tuesday, June 17 6 PM AGIT Berlin Join Pinko collective member Max Fox and artist and theorist Virgil Taylor for a reading and conversation on After Accountability. Nansenstraße 2, 12047 Berlin
After Accountability events Folkets Hus Copenhagen June 14 San Serriffe Amsterdam June 15 AGIT Berlin June 17 The Scarlett Letters London June 20 Join Pinko editor Max Fox for readings and discussions at these bookstores in June. Copies of After Accountability will be available for sale.
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A capitalist factory is a place where value is produced, which “unfortunately” has to take the form of the production of goods, of use-values. The concrete is produced as the necessary carrier of the abstract. The extermination camps were not a terrible version of such a factory but, rather, should be seen as its grotesque, Aryan, “anticapitalist” negation. Auschwitz was a factory to “destroy value,” that is, to destroy the personifications of the abstract. Its organization was that of a fiendish industrial process, the aim of which was to “liberate” the concrete from the abstract. The first step was to dehumanize, that is, to rip away the “mask” of humanity, of qualitative specificity, and reveal the Jews for what “they really are”—shadows, ciphers, numbered abstractions. The second step was to then eradicate that abstractness, to transform it into smoke, trying in the process to wrest away the last remnants of the concrete material “use-value”: clothes, gold, hair, soap.
The hypostatization of the concrete and the identification of capital with the manifest abstract underlie a form of “anticapitalism” that seeks to overcome the existing social order from a standpoint which actually remains immanent to that order. Inasmuch as that standpoint is the concrete dimension, this ideology tends to point toward a more concrete and organized form of overt capitalist social synthesis. This form of “anticapitalism,” then, only appears to be looking backward with yearning. As an expression of the capital fetish its real thrust is forward. It emerges in the transition from liberal to bureaucratic capitalism and becomes virulent in a situation of structural crisis.
Philly launch 3 pm wooden shoe Sunday 2/23. Pinko editors and contributors to after accountability in conversation with Malcolm Harris at the wooden shoe 704 south street
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Writers against the war in Gaza present New Year Same Revolution. A town hall and fundraiser for Gaza. Jan 21 Calvary united methodist church, 6:30–9 PM
Still, his impact is widely felt. Kuromiya would call himself the “Forrest Gump of activism”, according to his biographer, Che Gossett, because he was improbably present at so many historical actions. Just to take the Civil Rights movement alone: on stage at the “March on Washington”, a hundred or so feet away from Martin Luther King, Jr., whom he met for the first time that night. Following the violence on the Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, he flew to Montgomery with money raised by Duke Ellington (apparently the musician’s first time funding any civil rights action) and was himself “clubbed down” so severely and egregiously that it was announced he had died. He and King drafted a statement for the sheriff to deliver, what King called “the very first time a southern sheriff had apologised for injuring a civil rights worker”. After King’s assassination, Kiyoshi travelled to Atlanta to take care of King’s two young sons during the week of the funeral.
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Abolish rent November 24 @ 4 pm at Making Worlds Books
November 24 Philly at Making Worlds Books 4 PM 210 S 45th Street. ABOLISH RENT Book Launch! Tracy Rosenthal in conversation with Sterling Johnson, Philadelphia Housing Action, and Max Fox, Pinko Magazine
After accountability book launch at Wendy’s Subway Friday October 6 7:00 PM
Plates of food on a metal table in a back yard
Henry, a glossy black kitten, stares into the distance with his one eye. He is prone on a grey mat in front of stacks of books