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