January 2011
59 posts
Oppressive and grey? No, growing up under... →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
Thanks to The Ilustrado for bringing this to my attention.
By ZSUZSANNA CLARK
When people ask me what it was like growing up behind the Iron Curtain in Hungary in the Seventies and Eighties, most expect to hear tales of secret police, bread queues and other nasty manifestations of life in a one-party state.
They are invariably disappointed when I explain that the...
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“But why is an understanding of the pervasiveness of sexual abuse in...”
– Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?
“I saw many friends
And the friend I loved most
Among them helplessly sunk...”
– Bertolt Brecht, “The Swamp” (written about Peter Lorre)
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I didn’t know this even existed.
This is like the moment when I found out about ‘Waiting for Twilight’ (Guy Maddin documentary narrated by Tom Waits).
(via miss-quite-contrary)
i love this, it is really speaking to my own experience...
Europe must move beyond mere tolerance - Slavoj... →
theguywhoinventedfire:
When, a decade ago, Slovenia was about to join the European Union, one of our Eurosceptics offered a sarcastic paraphrase of a Marx brothers joke about getting a lawyer: Do we, Slovenes, have troubles? Let us join the EU! We will have even more troubles, but we will have the EU to take care of them! This is how many Slovenes now perceive the EU: it brings some help, but...
How to Change the World: Tales of Marx and Marxism... →
“Hitherto, philosophers have sought to understand the world; the point, however, is to change it.” Marx’s celebrated over-statement attempted to build what might now be called an “impact requirement” into the valuation of abstract thought: the test of the validity of ideas was to be found in their capacity to transform the world. This hubristic declaration may in retrospect be seen as expressing...
“For Brecht … ‘science’ is far less a matter of knowledge and epistemology than...”
– Fredric Jameson on Brecht, in Aesthetics & Politics (1980, pp.204-5)
“Red Rosa now has vanished too.
Where she lies is hid from view.
She told the...”
– Bertolt Brecht, 1919. January 15th marks the 92nd anniversary of comrade Rosa Luxemburg’s murder. Luxemburg was killed along with Karl Liebknecht by the Freikorps in Berlin, after the Spartacist uprising was crushed by the social democrat government of the time.
