September 2011
6 posts
“In Chicago, I had found myself longing for the Sarajevo way of story-telling -...”
– Excerpt from The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
August 2011
16 posts
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“As a Marxist, if somebody tells me that Lacan is difficult, this is class...”
– Slavoj Zizek (via apofis)
my first semester of college, I had a teacher who told me I had to preface all of the sentences in my paper with, “As a Marxist, I feel that…” because otherwise I was just being unapologetically subjective and that was gross as hell and I was being a bad writer. well fuck...
“I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the...”
– Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (via fuckyeahmarxismleninism)
“In times when the bourgeoisie is up against the wall, when the masses have risen...”
– Sam Marcy, “Marxism and Insurrection: The Los Angeles Rebellion,” Workers World, May 14, 1992 (via fuckyeahmarxismleninism)
June 2011
47 posts
Gramsci: Social Democrat or Revolutionary... →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
By Roberto Robaina
— Brazil was one of the first countries in Latin America to rediscover Antonio Gramsci. This was important in itself, but it was also attended by the theoretical distortions of a left that, although it was breaking with Stalinism, still resisted the alternative of a revolutionary perspective.
Gramsci’s writings certainly do leave some room...
Critical Culture: Just putting this out there... →
criticalculture:
Maybe Europeans’ hatred of Roma persons (aka. gypsies) isn’t motivated by racism, but rather by the bad behaviour of Roma children and their parents’ unwillingness to discipline them. Seriously, these punks could easily give the brattiest of spoiled North American tots a run for their money.
Near Florina in Greece, at an outdoor market, about three children around the age...
“Let us speak plainly: Historically, the errors committed by a truly...”
– Rosa Luxemburg, Organizational Questions of Russian Social Democracy (aka Leninism or Marxism?), 1904
(via easternblocparty)
LOL at butchering Luxembourg. I’m bored of this “she was a ‘good’ marxist, not like that mean Lenin” bullshit - she was excellent, and in the end was in agreement with Lenin...
“Let us speak plainly: Historically, the errors committed by a truly...”
– Rosa Luxemburg, Organizational Questions of Russian Social Democracy (aka Leninism or Marxism?), 1904
