December 2011
233 posts
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philosophy-of-praxis:
atomicsocialist:
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stillmindstillcosmos:
So, according to some folk, there’s something called a capitalist class of people?
Really?
Because every single person who believes in capitalism is a scheming, vile, evil fat cat “business man.”
Because there are no middle and lower-middle class capitalists. Okay, then…
No the capitalist class are the...
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On Misogyny/Homophobia in Rap and White Feminism
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thesociologicalear:
Yesterday, I witnessed a discussion on my dashboard that centered, once again, around Tyler the Creator (of Odd Future) and indie rock artist Sara Quin (of Tegan and Sara.) This discussion was actually an extension of a conflict that had occurred between the two earlier in the year, when Quin wrote a post discussing Tyler’s copious use of the word...
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dagNotes: Possessive Whiteness; or, Transethnicity
dagseoul:
White feminist who says she doesn’t identify as white is white and privileged.
White people who come to Korea and all of a sudden talk like oppressed minorities about rights and bigotry may, in fact, be the minority in Korea, but are still white and are still privileged.
In the US, white people can’t wait until they can say they are no longer the majority. They will insist, then, as...
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“It is at the very moment when the living being persists stubbornly in its...”
– Gilles Deleuze, Mathesis, Science and Philosophy (via infinitejudgement)
BUT GILLES THIS IS SO DIALECTICAL
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HELL YEAH
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Pedantic Freud moment
sonofapritch:
Freud actually hated the word “subconscious,” and said it didn’t describe the unconscious because it made it sound like it was a basement instead of a force totally outside our ability to grasp.
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“… he does not fulfil himself in his work but denies himself, has a feeling of...”
– Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 (via hollovv)
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The End of Capitalism? - lecture by David Harvey →
“Now, There is nothing really novel about the idea that free markets are the very...”
– Stop Picking on the Poor Plutocrats (via azspot)
1 + 1 = 3: Communism →
themarxistmind:
jinavie:
An economics professor was lecturing about communism. The students insisted that communism worked since no one would be poor and no one would be rich - a great equalizer. To show the students whether communism worked or not, the professor designed a social experiment. The professor announced to…
Because the people who work hard in any realistic capitalist society,...
Re: Kim Jong-Il's funeral
brosephstalin:
I hope fuckyeahmarxismleninsm is watching this while crying into a glass of vodka
Libertarianism
bbcity:
enemyofthestatist:
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enemyofthestatist:
anticapitalist:
Because defending private property with the threat of violence is the best way to satisfy the non-aggression principle.
Socialism: Because the extension of someone’s labor and body being attacked isn’t aggression
Hoarding property rights to the extent where you are now in a privileged position to make decisions...
akagoldfish:
iauiugu:
akagoldfish:
iauiugu replied to your post: philosophy-of-praxis replied to your post:…
both deal with human entelechy; the former is optimistic, the latter pessimistic. when it comes to human entelechy, technocracy and primitivism are the only outcomes.
they’re both also vaguely totalitarian, so there’s that to. kind of like how Mussolini started out as a socialist…
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“There must be many Übermenschen: all goodness [or quality: Güte] develops only...”
– Nietzsche, KSA 11:35[72] (via bbcity)
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Mark Solms, Part 1: Neuropsychoanalysis – The Conscious Id
Join us at this important meeting, to consider whether the neuroscientific evidence that will be presented indicates that the primitive part of the mind which Freud described as the ‘id’ is intrinsically conscious, and the reality-oriented ‘ego’ is unconscious — and that it derives its consciousness from the endogenous id...
What Next in the Fight Over Who Our Economy Is... →
cultureofresistance:
Who is our economy for, anyway? In the United States, We, the People are supposedly in charge, and our country and economy are supposed to be managed for the public good. But that isn’t how things have been working out, is it?
Let’s take a quick look at America over the last few decades.
We used to have a social contract. We invested in top-notch infrastructure (like the...
Environmentalism as Bad Ideology
wmzink:
“The only sustainable technology is stone age. Better regulation still leaves us on a dead planet in the near future. Solar, wind, hydro, all of it are not sustainable, nor can they provide for existing energy use or even greatly reduced energy use. Even if you didn’t mind the exploitation of the land and people required due to the mining necessary for solar and wind, solar and wind...
Why do so many people still defend the atomic...
socialismartnature:
So … I recently posted a photoset in which one image conveyed the message that maybe the U.S. shouldn’t have dropped two atomic bombs on highly-populated cities in Japan at the end of World War II.
I’ve been surprised at the number of people actually defending the dropping of those bombs.
Do these people actually support the use of nuclear weapons? Somehow, it’s okay if a...
"What Makes a Good Rape Scene?" by Natasha...
feministfilm:
TW: sexual assault
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just saw The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (a story which is very much About Rape, if you weren’t aware—I wasn’t!); while i’m not quite as dismissive of the film as this piece is, the fact that I agree with its analysis, as well as other problems i have with it, leads me to nevertheless describe the film as a failure.
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Coding Race
politicalprof:
Let me offer some thoughts about an important issue in American political life that is informed by the Ron Paul flap, but that many Paulites might not be thinking about as they defend him: the concept of code. (Note that this discussion is about Ron Paul, not libertarianism as such.)
Code means using words that sound neutral but in fact have explicit racial or other...
The Army and the Economy in Egypt →
zeitvox:
Jadaliyya »
Until this very day, the role of the military establishment in the economy remains one of the major taboos in Egyptian politics. Over the past thirty years, the army has insisted on concealing information about its enormous interests in the economy and thereby keeping them out of reach of public transparency and accountability. The Egyptian Armed Forces owns a massive...
“We theorize capitalism without capitalists as a distinctive new strategy of...”
– Gil Eyal et. al.¸ Making Capitalism Without Capitalists (via robert-brydie)
“seminal” is my favorite antifeminist academic word and even though all our...”
– RGR-POP
If you aren’t following RGR-POP on the Tumbles I would highly recommend it.
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