January 2012
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“This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole...”
– Albert Einstein, Why Socialism?
December 2011
67 posts
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President Obama Signs Indefinite Detention Into... →
“With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is...”
– Doris Lessing (via tiffanypaisley)
Has anyone ever considered the impact German bedtime stories might have had on German children throughout history (and no, I don’t mean Hitler)? I mean The Erlking? They told that story to little children before sleep. That and the other Fairy Tales that are considerably more fucked up in their original versions.
I think about stuff like this, sometimes.
My body, my rules: a case for rape and domestic... →
By Liberté Locke
*Trigger warning for sexual violence*
I started working at Starbucks on August 22, 2006. That was a little over five years ago. Every year we have annual reviews where I generally get to argue with someone younger than me who makes significantly more than do about why my hard work, aching back, cracking hands, sore wrists, the bags under my eyes, the burns, the bruises on my...
Rest in Peace James Thomas, father, grandfather,...
So am I the only one who mentally associates Objectivism with the Sith philosophy?
“Mentally associates” doesn’t cut it. They’re practically identical.
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unorganized free-write rant
domesticterrorism:
I’ve noticed that a lot of reactionary sentiment is built on the false idea that capitalism is a natural state of things, and that any form of socialism (or anything hindering capitalism) is something imposed on it (which is something I’ve written about, at least indirectly, a great deal). This fits really snugly into the narrative that government is the only thing capable of...
“In bourgeois society, capital is independent and has individuality, while the...”
– Karl Marx and Frederick Engels “The Communist Manifesto” (via liberalsocialist)
Posting because capitalist “individualism” is dildos.
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Why is it that areas of sociology and philosophy are the only ones in which one can become “disillusioned by academia?” These fields happen to exist for the sole purpose of understanding society and the world. Nobody ever says “hey man, get out of the lab once in a while and learn how photosynthesis really works.” That particular academia doesn’t tend to be...
Jesus isn’t the “reason for the season;” Persephone is.
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So we all have the counter-arguments to the “aren’t we all just people?” attempt at derailment memorized (I refer you to this image as the quintessential example), but I’d like to comment for a moment on how stupid that approach to equality is.
It’s pretty much trying to bring about a certain world by pretending you already live there: “Well I’ll say...
“Saying you are “for capitalism but against corporate greed” is like saying you...”
– Comment on a picture of an anarchist banner posted by the Facebook page I Acknowledge Class Warfare Exists. (via authenticiouslycounterfeit)
Almost. One of these things is a guarantee, the other makes your genitals burn.
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Favorite thing on my dash today:
Trigger warning: Ron Paul
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TO: Juvenile “radicals” FROM: People with brains DATE: 21 December, 2011 SUBJECT: Annoying Behavior
MEMORANDUM
Those whom this may concern are hereby banned, indefinitely from comparing things to the following things:
Nazis
The Matrix
V for Vendetta
Nazis
Secret Police
Hitler
Nazis
We must also ask that you cease and desist, indefinitely, the telling of any individual or...
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ivagina:
no but seriously
i love you jake
and i miss you
and i can’t wait to see you on thursday
I love you and miss you too, snuggle bunny.
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Apparently I live near a Chicken Cock Creek. So either that means “Chicken Chicken Creek” or it means “Chicken Penis Creek.”
fuckyeahmarxismleninism did not disappoint.
I’ve said it before, I will say it all my life:
Stalinists are why we can’t have nice things.
“When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it...”
– Mikhail Bakunin (via ftm-communist)
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“If you would execute me two times, and if I could be reborn two other times, I...”
– Bartolomeo Vanzetti, April 19, 1927
“Today we take the buying and selling of labor power for granted. It seems as...”
– Chris Harman, Zombie Capitalism: Global Crisis and the Relevance of Marx - “Primitive Accumulation.” (via domesticterrorism)
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Updates from Wukan, the fishing village staging... →
For the first time on record, the Chinese Communist party has lost all control, with the population of 20,000 in this southern fishing village now in open revolt.” So begins Telegraph correspondent Malcolm Moore’s report of what he has personally witnessed in the fishing village of Wukan, Guangdong over the past few days. Enraged over government land grabs, villagers have now...
“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient...”
– Vladimir Lenin (via jesteractivist)
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carton-rouge asked: How do you feel about #OWS and it's tactics/direction lately? What direct actions do you think the movement should focus on as its number one priority at this stage?
“There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-old’s life: The Lord...”
– Anonymous
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“Most leftists have yet to realize that climate science has handed them the most...”
– Naomi Klein, To Conservatives, Climate change is Trojan Horse to Abolish Capitalism (via domesticterrorism)
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Study Debunks Myths About Gender and Math... →
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Does anyone else despise the monopoly crass libertarians think they have on intelligence? I like to attribute this to two things. The first would be the common false notion that capitalist markets and property relations are the natural way of things, and anything else is just imposed on it. This allows one to turn the simple observations and speculations [of one or two approaches out of many...
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Already giving up on 30 day challenge. Here’s days 7-15
Day 07- A picture of someone/something that has the biggest impact on you
Day 08- Short term goals for this month and why Finish school work and pass everything because reasons. Finish college application. Get other part of Jaclyn’s Christmas present. See a doctor about the sores on my feet. Lose another 5 pounds.
Day 09-...
one of my problems with Ron Paul is that his “pacifism” is rooted in isolationism and not, you know, not killing people.
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Bah.
This whole “kids can’t pray and celebrate Christmas in schools” thing is probably the biggest load of shit I’ve ever heard. Just because your kid’s school isn’t putting up pictures of white Jesus, or holding “keep the Christ in Christmas” poster contests, doesn’t mean Christianity is being victimized like in pre-Constantine Rome or some bad...