February 2012
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“With a few tents and shedloads of determination, those who have huddled outside...”
– Former canon chancellor of St Paul’s Cathedral Dr Giles Fraser on the latest Occupy eviction (via guardian)
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I HATE I SAY ABOOT
grave-wisdom:
philosophy-of-praxis:
grave-wisdom:
marxandsparks:
- Gravewisdom 2012
DON’T YOU?
I putted all the words back in for you :)
You are all just jealous of my majestic beaver.
Amen.
I HATE I SAY ABOOT
grave-wisdom:
marxandsparks:
- Gravewisdom 2012
DON’T YOU?
I putted all the words back in for you :)
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Last Spanish Civil War Scot Thomas Watters dies . →
marxandsparks:
The last surviving Scot who volunteered to fight in the Spanish Civil War has died at the age of 99.
RIP Comrade.
“As I have said before, the ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the...”
– Fidel Castro (via selfish-humanity)
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"Political Apathy Disorder: Proposal for a New DSM...
tide-and-wave:
draggle:
lakrymosa:
philosophy-of-praxis:
This weeks surreal journal article discoveries …
The system failing to encourage genuine political engagement is now the fault of the people who aren’t being engaged.
I am really dreading the DSM-V.
Gross.
…
I hope the original post is a joke of some sort…please?
http://jhp.sagepub.com/content/44/1/47.short
It’s...
Anonymous asked: Are there tolerable libertarians?
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If you're a leftist and have a capitalist friend...
lakrymosa:
philosophy-of-praxis:
iwanttheairwaves:
THEY’RE THE ENEMY!
(Sarcasm). *sigh*
Fix’d.
;)
Also under this flimsy use of capitalist, more people are capitalist. I mean unless someone makes the active decision to being ideologically anti-capitalist, they will probably still be in favour of capitalism of some form. Social democrats, under this premise, are capitalist. It’s...
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“They saw this individual not as an historical result, but as the starting point...”
– Karl Marx (via iwanttheairwaves)
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likeagswift:
Anarcho-capitalism should really be called anomic capitalism.
Does anybody know where that white power pic Dag made is? It could do with a re-emergence at this point.
So. Deputy PM Nick Clegg just called all 18-24... →
konjum-mainakkale:
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selchieproductions:
And he was recorded while doing it.
Does anyone seriously think that he cares in the slightest about actually fighting youth unemployment?
Wait, what?
And to think I voted for his party. #lolsob #nexttimeiwilljustholdmynoseandvoteforlabourugh
I should point out I’m reblogging this to watch later because I’m in the...
akagoldfish:
“Freedom of thought” may be the most absurd concept I’ve seen someone try to pull on tumblr since “self-ownership”.
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If you're a leftist and have a capitalist friend...
iwanttheairwaves:
THEY’RE THE ENEMY!
(Sarcasm). *sigh*
Fix’d.
;)
Also under this flimsy use of capitalist, more people are capitalist. I mean unless someone makes the active decision to being ideologically anti-capitalist, they will probably still be in favour of capitalism of some form. Social democrats, under this premise, are capitalist. It’s mostly crass libertarians that...
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evrythingsmagic replied to your post: “Political Apathy Disorder: Proposal for a New DSM Diagnostic Category”
Is this legit? o_o
Do a search by the title on google scholar. I didn’t download/read it because it’s not relevant to what I’m looking for. More relevant than last time when I was finding articles about lobsters though …
"Political Apathy Disorder: Proposal for a New DSM...
This weeks surreal journal article discoveries …
The system failing to encourage genuine political engagement is now the fault of the people who aren’t being engaged.
zedweiller:
juthikaforpresident:
you know what annoys me
when white people say that eating with our hands is gross and disgusting
like how else are you going to eat daal and rice and kebabs at the same time god white people you have the worst food
i would starve if i couldn’t eat with my hands. fuckin closed-minded assholes, right?
I eat with my mouth.
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“At this time, many young Iranians all over this world are watching us, and I...”
– Iranian film director ASGHAR FARHADI, on accepting his Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, A Separation (via inothernews)
I adored his speech. Well done.
(via mohandasgandhi)
“Intersectionality is not optional. It is not something you can take off and put...”
– Intersectionality Is Not Optional (via satifice
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zedweiller:
gross. i’m really not sold on Wilde’s anti-charity arguments, mainly to the degree that he asserts them. i’ve heard the argument before that if conditions worsen for the working class, then we’ll somehow find the will to revolt.
yeah that’s part of it, but the working class being well organized is much more productive towards that end.
Wilde...
“For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism.
“If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can...”
– Frédéric Bastiat (via nomosshere)
“It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institution of private property.” - Oscar Wilde
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socialistapplejack:
Do you however believe that the relationship between corporate and state is much too intimate? With the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, and the tax breaks for major corporations, the ability for CEOs to hold government and vice-versa- don’t all these point to signs that corporate and state are surely becoming more and more “chummy”.
Just wondering.
I’m a...
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"Politically Peng"
purpletolavender:
Adjective
Used to describe the admiration you feel towards another person due to their political ideology.
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doctorofnothing replied to your link: I don’t often do the lead off at a branch meeting, but if I do it’ll probably at least mention Gramsci …
i wish i lived near by. it’d be cool if you guys have the means to do so to livestream it or something along those lines. lol, liveblogging came to mind. LIVEBLOGGING. :P
Oh man, what is this the 21st century? Half the comrades still get...
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cootedetat replied to your link: I don’t often do the lead off at a branch meeting, but if I do it’ll probably at least mention Gramsci …
What Party are you in man, the SWP?
That’s what the rumours say. According to The Telegraph I should be reporting back to the cabal of half-dozen glorious overlords and I’ve not had a conversation with any of them yet so I must...
I don't often do the lead off at a branch meeting,... →
This Thursday, anybody in the Bristol area should come to Hamilton House because I’m talking about Gramsci. Which is just my favourite past time, and I’d love to share it with everyone.
Also, Sam, I’m not ignoring the fascism discussion but I realised I misread what you initially posted and I need to make sure I have enough time to read it through properly and have an adequate...
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There is currently an ethnic cleansing of black...
dreams-from-my-father:
Will black people be wiped out for the second time on African soil by Arabs while the international community - that armed and supported the rebels - says NOTHING??
The Tawerghas, a tribe of black Libyans in the South of the country, are being systematically targeted and killed by the new regime of Tripoli!!
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matervamjebem:
Genuine: matervamjebem: genuineeeegenuinee: This muhfucka said all attractions…
genuineeeegenuinee:
matervamjebem:
genuineeeegenuinee:
This muhfucka said all attractions are fetishes.
I…I actually just want to jump off a very tall very high building actually, because I can’t believe that this happened.
Irl.
What on earth is wrong with saying that??
first you...
