Libcom
| File:LibcomLogo.png | |
Type of site | Politics News and opinion blog |
|---|---|
| Available in | Multilingual (English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Kurdi, Arabic, Polish, Portugese, Swedish, Dutch and Chinese.) |
| Website | www |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Users | 10,000 |
| Launched | 2002 (as enrager.net), 2005 (as libcom.org) |
| Current status | Active |
Libcom.org (originally enrager.net) is a Far-left alternative online news source that focuses on offering an anticapitalist perspective on world events, specifically those which affect poor, oppressed, and marginalized groups. Libcom's name is a portmanteau of the political ideologies of libertarianism and communism; the website holds the explicit position of Anarcho-communism.
History[edit]
A early prototype of what would become Libcom was first established in 2002 under the name of enrager.net, a personal blog. In 2003, enrager.net had its public launch. By 2005, the website was officially renamed Libcom.[1]
Ideology[edit]
Libcom officially supports the position of Anarcho-Communism, and is ideologically influenced by Ultra-Marxism, Anarchist-Communism, Left Communism, Feminism, Council Communism, Anarcho-Syndicalism, and Black Liberation. In addition Libcom officially expresses support for Anarchist Federation, Solidarity Federation, Asian Youth Movements, and League of Revolutionary Black Workers, among others.[2]
Reception and Notability[edit]
Libcom has become an important source of citations for individuals discussing topics of the radical left, specifically on topics regarding Marxism, Anarchism, Socialism and Syndicalism. Numerous scholarly articles use the website as a reference when discussing topics of a very diverse nature. Libcom has been cited in articles published by, Oxford Art Journal,[3] The Brooklyn Rail,[4] Journal of Social History,[5] and The Cambridge Journal of Economic.[6]
The journalistic bias research website mediabiasfactcheck.com published a review of the website, stating that though it was heavily biased in favor of the political left, the veracity of its articles were very high.[7] An article in CounterPunch mentions the website in passing.[8]
The left-leaning news-source The Daily Beast cited Libcom as a source for allegations of plagiarism and poor-referencing against Angela Nagle's book Kill All Normies, which was a popular work published by Zero Book.[9]
Writers published[edit]
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References[edit]
- ↑ "site history". libcom.org.
- ↑ "libcom.org: an introduction". libcom.org.
- ↑ Charlesworth, Amy (March 2016). "The 1970s and Today". Oxford Art Journal. 39 (1): 147–152. doi:10.1093/oxartj/kcv038. ISSN 0142-6540.
- ↑ "Quotation, Paraphrase, and Plagiarism: An Exchange". The Brooklyn Rail.
- ↑ Brown, T. S. (14 May 2013). "The Sixties in the City: Avant-gardes and Urban Rebels in New York, London, and West Berlin". Journal of Social History. 46 (4): 817–842. doi:10.1093/jsh/sht007. ISSN 0022-4529.
- ↑ Ivanova, M. N. (13 February 2011). "Money, housing and world market: the dialectic of globalised production". Cambridge Journal of Economics. 35 (5): 853–871. doi:10.1093/cje/beq053. ISSN 0309-166X.
- ↑ Zandt, D. Van. "Libcom.org - Media Bias/Fact Check". Media Bias/Fact Check. mediabiasfactcheck.com. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
- ↑ "Socialists and the Animal Question". www.counterpunch.org.
- ↑ Davis, Charles (20 May 2018). "Sloppy Sourcing Plagues 'Kill All Normies' Alt-Right Book". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
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