Author: Noon

Noon is an economic philosopher, co-host of the podcast Auspol Snackpod, and small time memelord at Avant-Garde Memes. He has a background in community organising and environmental activism. Extremely pessimistic about the world in general and the climate emergency in particular, Noon is trying to find hope in Marxist economic theory, radical subjectivities, absurd memes, his small collection of fruit trees, and his dog Bagel.

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Library Socialism

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything that you need” – Cicero The difficult thing about imagining a better world is social relations. Revolutionary Marxism call for workers to “seize and own in common the means of production”, as if this Read More …

Idealism as a Defense Mechanism of Materialists

If you ever want to win an argument with a Marxist, just keep asking them for “a more material analysis”. Materialism is a catchcry of Marxists, and they weaponise it against all sorts of people: from Foucault to Chomsky, anarchists to reactionaries, Marxists see Idealism Read More …

Value Creation in Non-Capitalist Formations

For as soon as the distribution of labour comes into being, each man has a particular, exclusive sphere of activity, which is forced upon him and from which he cannot escape. He is a hunter, a fisherman, a herdsman, or a critical critic, and must Read More …

Memes as a Glimpse of a Radical Future

He ignored the moving way, and kept to the narrow sidewalk – an eccentric thing to do, since he had several miles to travel. But Alvin liked the exercise, for it soothed his mind. Besides, there was so much to see that it seemed a Read More …