The New China Syndrome

This photo-essay was completed in November 2005 and an abridged version appeared in the second issue of the London-based journal Principia Dialectica in 2006.

“The transformation of life into commodities kills, but nowhere is this more deadly than in the extreme market conditions of contemporary China. Red capitalists use anything — collagen extracted from the lips of executed prisoners or haphazardly recycled electronic waste from the West — as the raw materials for runaway overproduction.” LB

Read the complete photo-essay: The New China Syndrome

The Lazy Ones

A crude propaganda film by Len Bracken starring Fred Cox as a government agent charged with investigating the Work Elimination Front. Fifty-five minutes.

“Politically erect ... when it comes to mixing poly sci and sex ed, Bracken’s the boss.”
Washington City Paper

VHS shown at Baltimore’s anarchist bookfair in 2003; version 1.2 DVD shown at Museum of Contemporary Art in Washington in 2004 (includes out takes of complete speech on the Zero Theory of Revolution, Including a General Theory of Civil War from the book Arch Conspirator). Not for sale. Address screening inquiries to lenbracken@hotmail.com

The Lazy Ones intro (2:14 min clip) download .mpg file — 8.6MB

Dialectical Hedonism

“A brilliant pamphlet by Len Bracken featuring his September 2001 trip to Riga, Latvia to attend a city-wide Adbusters-style anti-capitalist festival. Bracken mixes memoir, travel diary, sexuality, and some good ranting about modern capitalism.”
ChuckO’s Reading Blog

“Love is destroyed by wage slavery and fetishism, but with daring and mastery the libidinal economy could make even more serious attacks on our commodity economy than it already has — it can negate the negation of life through the painful struggle and blissful unity of lovers.” LB

Dialectical Hedonism 69-page pamphlet, $6.00 postpaid.

Aphorisms Against Work

“Work is to life as a wall is to the wind.” LB

Epoch Communications, 2000 — second edition, pocket-size booklet

Aphorisms Against Work — 13 pages — $3.00

Excerpts from Aphorisms Against Work

On the Line with Len Bracken

BBC partytime interview about rants such as City of Death, Spy Ripper and the Campaign for Nobody. Additional cuts: Antiwork Tango and Discourse on Solar Economics.

Epoch Communications, 2000 — sixty minute CD — $10.00

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