February 2012
440 posts
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.
[citation needed]
Sounds like a marvelous plan.
“Crucially, an opposition to capitalism and landlordism, and a politics of class...”
– Michael Schmidt and Lucien van der Walt - Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism (2009)
glitchthemachine:
The Game Is Rigged: As a general rule, wealth buys political influence. If a country is…
fralcon:
As a general rule, wealth buys political influence. If a country is having fiscal problems, the blame likely lies with the corporations and individuals who benefited the most from its policies. Don’t blame the public worker who has the unmitigated gall to be in the...
Have you ever noticed those Ron Paul supporters...
“The president’s liberal friends in Hollywood [are] targeting a younger...”
–
Fox News’ Lou Dobbs, on the movie version of Dr. Suess’ The Lorax
I am 99.9999% sure that when Theodor Suess Gisel wrote The Lorax in 1971 he thought, “This will be really wonderful propaganda in the event that we eventually have a black president and he and his liberal friends are inspired to...
Debate tonight
namelessgenxer:
Sick Rantorum: “Religious Freedom”
EVERYBODY DRINK!
Seriously? It’s that time again? What’s it been, about a month?
“What attracts us to the black bloc is exactly what draws us to the occupation of...”
– God Only Knows What Devils We Are: an apologia for the black bloc from the community that has no community (via alwaysabittoofar)
THE FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN...
anticapitalist:
freedomwithoutexception:
Progressivism/Socialism: believes that the state can legislate in such a way that all results and prosperity will be equal and plentiful for everyone.
Progressivism and Socialism are not equals and have differing ideologies.
Progressivism entails capitalism regulated by the state.
Socialism entails worker control of the means of production and can...
joemccarthyblues:
All government power is based on force, all private power is based on force as well.
Power is based on force
On My Dash (a haiku)
pieceinthepuzzlehumanity:
There is quite a bit
Of poetry on my dash
Which is pretty cool
“The project of the ‘seizure of the means of production’ finds itself blocked, or...”
– “The Double Barricade and the Glass Floor” - Jasper Bernes; Communization and Its Discontents: Contestation, Critique, and Contemporary Struggle
Communism i can get behind: makin’ total destroy
(via effusionofbiopower)
Interesting. I just downloaded this book from libcom and quotes from it...
"Anarchy Works" by Peter Gelderloos. This explains... →
Dunderfuck: Status Anxiety →
gonadotropins:
Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKkdFSqAxV8
Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfTX2bqvvkw&feature=related
Part 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKXJ8PMG00A&feature=related
Part 4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWVgnNlAmVY&feature=related
Part 5:
…
“They want us to do what Pinochet did in Chile”
– Helena Smith, concerning Greece
Source
lolsheviks:
erosum:
also, what is pinterest? is it kind of like tumblr for those who haven’t figured out how to use tumblr?
I’ve heard it is a digitalized version of the commodity fetish.
(Fiction was never really my thing, but I have read a few of these…)
The BBC apparently believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here:
Which have you read?
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (Does 3/6 count?)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7...
Oh god Bait Car.
courtneypamyupamyu:
authenticiouslycounterfeit:
philosophy-of-praxis:
tsotchke:
thisgingersnapsback:
I seriously can’t understand how this is legal.
I hate this show.
I really hate that show too oh my god
I like it because it has car.
I don’t know about any other cities, but in New York the police send undercover cops pretending to be drunk into the subway in order to catch would...
“To desire freedom is an instinct. To secure it requires intelligence. It must be...”
– EC Riegel, The New Approach to Freedom (New York, 1949)
responsibility, yo. a sexy concept that makes libertarians and voluntarism so popular.
(via inbonobo)
Libtertarians and voluntarism (which is a such a misnomer it’s pretty much a joke) are popular? Learn something new every day, I...
Oh god Bait Car.
philosophy-of-praxis:
tsotchke:
thisgingersnapsback:
I seriously can’t understand how this is legal.
I hate this show.
I really hate that show too oh my god
I like it because it has car.
I don’t know about any other cities, but in New York the police send undercover cops pretending to be drunk into the subway in order to catch would be thieves. If that’s legal, bait cars...
new year's: abc family harry potter marathon family event
valentine's day: abc family harry potter marathon family event
president's weekend: abc family harry potter marathon family event
st. patrick's day: abc family harry potter marathon family event
spring break: abc family harry potter marathon family event
memorial day: abc family harry potter marathon family event
independence day: abc family harry potter marathon family event
labor day: abc family harry potter marathon family event
columbus day: abc family harry potter marathon family event
veterans day: abc family harry potter marathon family event
thanksgiving: abc family harry potter marathon family event
christmas: abc family harry potter marathon family event
“[D]ebts don’t really need to be repaid, because AIG, who owes money, can wave a...”
– Dr. David Graeber, Anthropologist/ anarchist/ scholar-activist (via rethinkcapitalism)
It really irritates how everyone in politics...
theworldisconfused:
Yes that’s one of his roles, but not his only role. The way some people talk you would think that’s all he does. The British don’t go around calling the Queen “Commandant-in-Chief” all the time (yes that is part of her title). People don’t generally go around referring to State Governors as Commander in Chief of the State National Guard. Well except for Conservapedia which...
Watchsinidentidades:
Cenk: The media is ‘grossly deceiving people’ on Iran
The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur accused CNN host Erin Burnett and the establishment media Friday evening for trumping up Iran’s weapons capability and trying to start another war in the Middle East.
Uygur was particularly annoyed at Burnett placing her own assessment of Iran’s leadership proceeding to develop a nuclear...
“There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two...”
– - John Adams (1780) (and we now have dems & repubs)
The division of our governmental system into “two great parties” was a statistical inevitability based on how the voting system works.
Meet Peta Lindsay, Your Young, Black, Female... →
chimasessions:
Peta Lindsay is 27 years old and running for president. She represents the PSL — Party for Socialism and Liberation — and believes that we could experience a socialist revolution right here in Amurrica: “The United States has a long, rich history of struggle,” she says. “From the 1930s, there was a strong labor movement, and in the ’50s and ’60s, there was a movement for civil...
