February 2012
23 posts
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“…[E]ven apart from the militaristic encroachment, the absolutism of bureaucracy,...”
– Max Horkheimer, “The Authoritarian State”
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“…there is no such thing as a neutral market: in every particular situation,...”
– Slavoj Žižek, First As Tragedy, Then As Farce (via aidsnegligee)
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“The State was the official representative of society as a whole; the gathering...”
– Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (via rethinksocialism)
“Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kids of...”
– Karl Marx, The Poverty Of Philosophy, Ch. 2, “Seventh and last observation” (via aidsnegligee)
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“The working class movement itself never is independent, never is of an...”
– Karl Marx, Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany
“It is immoral to use private property to alleviate the evils that result from...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism (via sowhenyoufeellikeitsallpretend)
“It is not loyalty to an organization but to a programme embodying principled...”
– Achin Vanaik, Subcontinental Strategies (via rethinksocialism)
“There is a tendency among the Left today — and I mean all varieties of the Left...”
– Fredric Jameson (via azspot)
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“There exists [a] word in German, Geschichte, which designates not accomplished...”
– Louis Althusser, Philosophy of the Encounter: Later Writings, 1978-87
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“Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all...”
– Edward Said, Preface to Orientalism
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“If the U.S. monopoly capitalist groups persist in pushing their policies of...”
– Mao Zedong
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“The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all …...”
– Helen Keller
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“The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be...”
– Preamble to the Constitution of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, or “Wobblies”)
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“[T]hat which at first was but a starting-point, becomes, by the mere continuity...”
– Karl Marx, “Simple Reproduction,” Capital, Vol. 1 (1867)
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“This country does in fact have a serious deficit problem. But the reality is...”
– U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (VT-I)
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“Revisionism was itself an expression of this aspiration to achieve positive...”
– Anton Pannekoek (via inside-illusion)
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“One can’t make revolution in white gloves. Whoever sincerely wants it must also...”
– Karl Liebknecht, 1918 (via we-are-revolting)
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“Personally I’m in favor of democracy, which means that the central institutions...”
– Noam Chomsky (via inside-illusion)
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“Political economy starts with the fact of private property; it does not explain...”
– Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
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“The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct,...”
– Leon Trotsky, “Resolution on the Antiwar Congress of the London Bureau” (July 1936)
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“[The worker under capitalism] does not fulfil himself in his work but denies...”
– Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
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“I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does...”
– Eugene V. Debs (via thoughtfulchild)
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“All along, capitalists have sought to control labour by putting individual...”
– David Harvey, The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism
January 2012
68 posts
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“Even in the purely economic sphere,” writes Kestner, “a certain change is taking...”
– Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
(via rethinksocialism)
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“Western post-Marxists — living in countries where the absolute or relative...”
– Mike Davis, “Spring Confronts Winter”
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“Of course, Socialism is violently denounced by the capitalist press and by all...”
– Eugene V. Debs (1900)
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“A critique is not a matter of saying that things are not right as they are. It...”
– Michel Foucault, “Practicing Criticism” (via talajoon)
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“In Marxian theory (as opposed to myopic neoclassical or financial theory),...”
– David Harvey, The Enigma of Capital
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“So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will...”
– Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means
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“Neoliberalization has not been very effective in revitalizing global capital...”
– David Harvey, A Brief History of Neo-Liberalism
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“If there exists one unique great imperial power which is always convinced that...”
– Alain Badiou, Philosophy and the ‘war against terrorism’ in Infinite Thought: truth and the return of philosophy
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“When one sees the meaning, or rather the near-total absence of meaning, given to...”
– Michel Foucault, The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the College de France 1981-82
(via Haze of Capitalism & beautifullysuffer)
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“Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man...”
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Karl Marx (via merrycrassmas)
“We do not use the terms “normal” or “abnormal”. All societies are rational and...”
– Gilles Deleuze in Capitalism: A Very Special Kind of Delirium (via hollovv)
“For Louis I have neither love, nor hate; I hate only his crimes. With regret I...”
– Maximilien Robespierre (via crookedsin)
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“The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation...”
– Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism
“In its struggle for power the proletariat has no other weapon but organisation....”
– Vladimir Lenin, One Step Forward, Two Steps Back (1904)
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“The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the...”
– Karl Marx
“I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten...”
– Tony Benn, politician (via thisisgreatbritain)
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“Workers cannot remain content with the desire for liberal democracy, social...”
– Stephen Eric Bronner, Critical Theory : A Very Short Introduction (via rethinksocialism)
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“[Capitalism’s] concept of competitive man who seeks only to maximize wealth and...”
– Noam Chomsky
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“They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism...”
– Fidel Castro
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“History has to be rewritten in every generation, because although the past does...”
– Christopher Hill
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“Sometimes — history needs a push.”
– V. I. Lenin
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“By “nationalism” I mean first of all the habit of assuming that...”
– George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism
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“The way change occurs to begin with, if you come up with a good idea, like...”
– Tony Benn, on the NHS
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“The strategic adversary is fascism… the fascism in us all, in our heads...”
– Michel Foucault
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“This is the permanent tension that lies at the heart of a capitalist democracy...”
– Tariq Ali, The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad
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“The Republican and Democratic parties, or, to be more exact, the...”
– Eugene V. Debs
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“The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all...”
– Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto