March 2012
149 posts
sinidentidades:
If I build my entire identity around being an atheist, can I call myself oppressed too?
Only for the three or four hours of freedom you get before the Christo-Fascists hunt you down for the crime of ~*fr3e Th1kning~*
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“[ On Banalisation as a tool for social control]
Let me give you an example....”
– Rick Roderick
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“We can clearly observe the close interaction between a class and the scientific...”
– - Georg Lukács History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics : Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat
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Anonymous asked: I was pretty far back on your blog and you mentioned the phrase "prude/slut dichotomy" in your post about obesity in the lower classes. Can you elaborate on what you mean by that dichotomy?
February 2012
105 posts
of-praxis:
this is one of the reasons why an academic study of race is important; people of color make the same mistakes in naturalizing race as a defining or universal feature. this is one of my pet peeves, people who try to normalize race. a common way in which this is done is by thinking of history that existed before the conceptualization of race in racial terms.
if you think that ancient...
STUDY: Rich people are more likely to steal candy... →
joemccarthyblues:
“You’re lucky you qualified for so much financial aid. My parents made too much so I’m not gonna get jackshit”
Now here’s the odd moment when you tell a kid who remembers poverty pretty well that I’m lucky because I have less money and expects sympathy because his parents are prosperous.
What kind of fucking bizarro world is this? If you’re making over 80 grand (The maximum...
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“Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.”
– The Book of Job 5:7
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“With the Bourgeoisie, also, class consciousness stands in opposition to class interest. But here the antagonism is not contradictory but dialectical.
The distinction between the two modes of contradiction may be briefly described in this way: in the case of the other classes, a class consciousness is prevented from emerging by their position within the process of production and the...
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New Leftists.
akagoldfish:
voicesofearth:
Okay yes the “New Left” was a thing, sure. This is “New Leftists,” which is more obviously an allusion to “New Atheists” than an ignorant attempt to ‘coin’ a term that already existed. Nobody in the New Left called themselves New Leftists, so you’re just grasping at straws here for… I honestly don’t know why actually. In any case, the OP’s got a point, and its...
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“When… in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in...”
– Notes From the Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
“America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the...”
– Hunter S. Thompson (via socialistexan)
“A nation of used car salesmen”
I like that, Hunter is spot on in judging the American psyche as usual. I’m gonna start using that.
(via joemccarthyblues)
“I am not a capitalist soldier; I am a proletarian revolutionist. I do not belong...”
– Eugene V. Debs (via omchomsky)
People on tumblr seem to think the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (INTP, ENTJ, etc.) personality types function as “scientific” replacements for horoscopes that you can use in the same way.
“The U.S. and its Western allies are sure to do whatever they can to prevent...”
– Noam Chomsky: Article (via stay-human)
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French Press > Drip
“For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth...”
– Ecclesiastes 1:16 - 1:18
“When the newspapers were full of alarms about Iran possibly developing a nuclear...”
– Howard Zinn on Kurt Vonnegut (via axelgonz08)
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SOUND MONEY: thelifetimenetwork: joemccarthyblues:... →
thelifetimenetwork:
joemccarthyblues:
thelifetimenetwork:
I’m sorry but modern economics is the calculus of oppression and if you define yourself as an economist I automatically do not trust you
Come on, there were once anti capitalist economist in this world like Proudhon,…
The whole function of economics is, in line with the basic superstructure of capitalism, to make the market...
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“I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free...”
– Muhammad Iqbal
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“As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth...”
– Friedrich Schiller
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“If an elementary school student has an excellent teacher even for a single year,...”
– Raj Chetty, professor of economics at Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences and a co-author of the study with Harvard Kennedy School’s John Friedman and Columbia Business School’s Jonah Rockoff. (Harvard Gazette)
AKA why teachers should be paid more and we should be working to retain the best and...
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“I love those who yearn for the impossible”
– Goethe’s Faust
“The billionaires and their supporters in Congress are hell-bent on taking us...”
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (via azspot)
You can’t help but absolutely MARVEL at Bernie Sanders.
(via depressingfacts)
We certainly need more Bernies in Congress.
(via sarahlee310)
