February 2012
54 posts
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.
Socialism - The utopian idea that human action is...
elemental-thing:
rethinksocialism:
baseballlibertarian:
If you remove all private property, profits, and the means of production you’ll remove all incentive to work, produce, and thrive.
Sounds like a marvelous plan.
Yes, because we want to remove the means of production.
Society, screw it, let’s just not produce anything and all die. That’s real socialism!
/sarcasm
Socialism doesnt...
“All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are...”
– Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right (1843)
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“Vulgar socialism […] has taken over from the bourgeois economists the...”
– Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Programme
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“Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into...”
– Leon Trotsky
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Abolish capital; liberate humanity.
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Anonymous asked: So what exact reasons made you realize how absurd capitalism is? And are you talking about the "capitalism" that we have to do or pure capitalism?
Socialism - The utopian idea that human action is...
baseballlibertarian:
If you remove all private property, profits, and the means of production you’ll remove all incentive to work, produce, and thrive.
Sounds like a marvelous plan.
Yes, because we want to remove the means of production.
Society, screw it, let’s just not produce anything and all die. That’s real socialism!
/sarcasm
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This Day in Resistance History: 100th Anniversary... →
“The IWW has been accused of putting women in the front. The truth is, the IWW does not keep them in the back, and they go to the front.”
— Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
“…there is no such thing as a neutral market: in every particular situation,...”
– Slavoj Zizek, First As Tragedy, Then As Farce (via aidsnegligee)
“Philosophy is, in the last instance, class struggle in the field of theory.”
– Louis Althusser, Essays in Self-Criticism (via quotemarx)
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“The State was the official representative of society as a whole; the gathering...”
– Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
“Hegel was an idealist. To him, the thoughts within his brain were not the more...”
– Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
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“Liberal: a power worshipper without power.”
– George Orwell (via psycho-tropic)
I like this quote, however I cannot find an actual source. Anyone know of it?
Liverpool workers ‘locked out’ by bosses occupy...
marxandsparks:
Striking workers in Liverpool have been locked out of their factory in a dispute over redundancies. In response, they have occupied the factory. The occupation has been temporarily suspended as their initial demands have been met. It is apparently the first ‘lock out’ of workers by bosses in Britain since 1958
Around 140 workers at Mayr-Melnhof packaging in Liverpool have...
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Why Socialism Doesn't Work →
detoutpourtous:
Within a free economy, societal equality means everyone starts the same. Within socialism, societal equality means everyone finishes the same. Economics students at one well-known university learned the hard way why socialism doesn’t work.
Hahahhaha
EDIT: I also love how a Forbes article is ‘explaining’ ‘socialism’, and how said article contains...
Encyclopedia of Marxism: Dialectical Materialism →
Dialectical Materialism is a way of understanding reality; whether thoughts, emotions, or the material world. Simply stated, this methodology is the combination of Dialectics and Materialism. The materialist dialectic is the theoretical foundation of Marxism (while being communist is the practice of Marxism).
“It is an eternal cycle in which matter moves, a cycle that certainly only...
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“Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new...”
– Rosa Luxemburg
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“It is not loyalty to an organization but to a programme embodying principled...”
– Achin Vanaik, Subcontinental Strategies
Has anyone noticed that Socialists are huge on...
canadiansheepdoggie:
psycho-tropic:
canadiansheepdoggie:
It’s crazy when you think about it, when a social program or government intervention has popular support it’s called ‘democracy in action’. When the same programs don’t have mob support we need to force everyone to be involved?
Here’s my suggestion, if you want higher taxes to pay for various social programs & safety nets then...
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Arab Revolts and the Nation-State Crisis →
“The dominion of the West today is often analysed in terms of transnational capital’s ability to entangle prior modes of production in its net; but it is equally urgent to analyse the structures of imperialism in terms of modes of foreign relations.
The Arab world, in revolt and once again under attack, finds itself in the midst of a triple crisis: the crisis of Western hegemony, the...
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“It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would...”
– Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. “The Other America.” Grosse Pointe High School, March 14, 1968.
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“The true function of constitutionalism was to protect the bourgeoisie from the...”
– L.C.B. Seaman, From Vienna to Versailles [1955]
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“[The KKE] will contribute with all its strength so that the people rise up, so...”
– The statement of the parliamentary group of the KKE (Κομμουνιστικό Κόμμα Ελλάδας, Communist Party of Greece)
Source
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“The processes of modernization and industrialization transformed and redefined...”
– Hardt & Negri, in Empire (2000, p. 284)
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“The advantage of the Marxian dialectic is that it gives us a way to think the...”
– Bue Rubner Hasnen, Review article of Capital as Power: A Study of Order and Creorder I think this quote sums up what is distinctive of Marxism from positivist understandings of society; that is, we must see things as a totality with causality not being linear in nature, bur rather dialectical. This...
liberal activism
of-praxis:
how can i do things to help people worse off than me without compromising the convenience afforded to me by their oppression
“The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct,...”
– Leon Trotsky, “Resolution on the Antiwar Congress of the London Bureau” (July 1936)
“Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity, it is an act of justice.”
– Nelson Mandela (via azelie)