In September 1867, 150 years ago, a book appeared in Hamburg with a first edition print run of 1,000 copies. This book was called Das Kapital, by Karl Marx. In the book, Marx sets out to analyse the capitalist reality in the form of a ‘critique of political economy’. He begins with an analysis of the commodity, describing its use and exchange value, and laying out, both economically and historically, how capital is produced, extracted and accumulated.
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‘Comrade Doctor’ is an in-depth article by Howard Slater on David Cooper and ‘Anti-Psychiatry’ from Datacide 16 and a critical response to Christoph Fringeli’s review of Peter Sedgewick’s ‘Psycho-Politics’. He examines the tension between sedate rationality and radical psychiatry, contrasting Laing’s romanticism with David Cooper’s push for politicizing madness to challenge capitalist norms and social alienation.
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Mystification: ‘This term, mystification, itself mystified, entered the field of psychotechnology to specifically account for indirect communicative manoevres in families and other micro-groups.’
No, there are no techniques of demystification. There is no human technology.
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A comic strip by Simon Lejeune aka Haedre from Datacide 16, a satire about the cosmic sci-fi Breakcore scene.
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Event announcement – Datacide taking part in the 2017 London Anarchist Bookfair with a stall – presenting issue 17 of the magazine.
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ARMED COMPETITIVENESS – The Working Class gets Called up to Fight Itself: Notes on a Recruitment Crisis, Datacide 16.
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In 2016, the Alt Right, a network of neo-fascist trolls, intensified online hate speech, manipulating public opinion on major political issues like Brexit and Trump’s campaign. Their tactics included posing as ordinary users, creating fake accounts, and spreading misinformation, ultimately aiming to propagate a neo-fascist agenda across America and Europe.
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Michael Moynihan has gained a reputation as an intellectual despite his association with fascist and occult circles. He collaborates with other fascist artists, publishes fascist-leaning works, and promotes extremist ideologies. One of Moynihan’s key contribution is publishing ‘Siege’ by James Mason, a collection advocating violence, racial hatred, and revolutionary nihilism, promoting Charles Manson as a new Führer.
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Announcement for Datacide participation at the Warsaw Independent Bookfair in 2017 in Polish, English and Russian.
Datacide did a stall and Christoph Fringeli a talk based on his article Hedonism & Revolution.
