December 2009
16 posts
revolution, the opiate of the marxists?
– Life is best in idleness and comfort; intelligence and sensitivity are characteristic of a subject position squeezed from sunshine and soft clothing like red juice from a pomegranate. Revolution is the actualisation of human beings as the object of their subjectivity, it is not religious martyrdom...
writingwords:
Videos posted to YouTube, Twitter and opposition Web sites showed students gathering in large crowds in Tehran and the northeastern city of Mashad. The police, who are barred from the universities, had gathered outside the schools and in public squares to head off the protests, and by early afternoon there were widespread reports of tear gas, beatings and arrests.
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– So the American insurrectionists have taken up TCI in a big way. Personally, I find their read both shallow and a bit problematic. Not only is there a feeling that mascunlinist theory-heads are using it to create divisions with members of their own social networks (e.g. Why She Doesn’t Give A Fuck...
I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.
– Jay Gould (via claytoncubitt)