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pmpress , 2 hours ago to random

Raoul Vaneigem: “Anyone who talks about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life—without grasping what is subversive about love and positive in the refusal of constraints—has a corpse in his mouth.” Read more: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=242

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pmpress , 20 hours ago to random

Every year, millions of books are pulped by the book industry’s big distribution companies when they are returned by retail outlets and on-line stores. Last month, we purchased another pallet of "damaged" books from our distributor before they were destroyed.

The majority of returns in the book industry come from Amazon, but small retailers are also forced to send good books to the landfill. Why?

While Amazon and Barnes & Noble receive great rates from the industry’s big distributors, small bookstores are squeezed–their margins are substantially smaller. For a small bookstore, selling a new book is only profitable when you sell it at full price. It’s impossible to compete with Amazon’s prices, and returning unsold stock is the only way to ensure that you aren’t losing money.

We pay to save our books from the landfill to challenge the absurd capitalistic logic forcing booksellers everywhere to destroy perfectly good books. Most major publishers have little physical contact with their stock, but our warehousing experience allows us to offer these books back to our readers at a steep discount. We do this to mitigate large losses and to get radical books into more hands.

So, pick up a few great books cheap while helping us fight back against capitalist profligacy.

All damages are 70% off with coupon code "Damages" until August 1st. https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_list&c=195

#books #capitalism #anarchism

pmpress , 1 day ago to random

Queers for a free Palestine.

Happy Pride from Seattle 🇵🇸

pmpress , 4 days ago to random

What are you reading this weekend?

pmpress , 3 months ago to random

Lucy Parsons, Black anarchist and worker's rights activist (described by the Chicago PD as "more dangerous than a thousand rioters") died on March 7th, 1942.

Lucy fought tirelessly for the rights of the poor in the face of an increasingly oppressive industrial economic system.

pmpress , 5 months ago to random

“The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and racism. The problems of racial injustice and economic injustice cannot be solved without a radical redistribution of political and economic power." –Martin Luther King Jr.