May 2012
ATTN: TORONTO PEEPS
Pots and Pans Everywhere: Solidarity With Quebec TONIGHT 8:00 pm Yonge and Dundas Square
“The struggle of women: this is the engine that has completely upset the...”
– from «Le operaie della casa», June-July, ‘76 (via maozedongisnotcool)
marched in solidarity with quebec students today...
some asshole walked up to the maoists and ripped their banner in two x__x
“The methods of formal analysis are necessary, but insufficient. You may count up...”
– Leon Trotsky, “The Social Roots and the Social Function of Literature” (1923)
if I ever become an academic marxist feel free to...
people too clever to get their hands dirty posting...
Anonymous asked: Before I got a Tumblr I found your blog through a Google search. I bookmarked it and visited all the time. Now I have a Tumblr and you follow me and it's really cool. It's like, if my favourite band asked me to go on tour with them without them knowing that they were a huge inspiration for my songwriting. That's how I relate this experience.
“Stumbling is not falling.”
– Malcolm X (via its-salah)
“You can’t drive a knife into a man’s back nine inches, pull it out six inches,...”
– Malcolm X (via thedismembermentflan)
SOLIDARITY WITH STUDENT STRIKERS IN QUEBEC!!!
any individual protester found guilty of an offence that forces the cancellation of classes would be liable to a fine of $1,000 to $5,000. If the offence is committed by a senior officer or representative of a student group or federation, the fine could be as much as $35,000; the student association or federation could face a fine as high as $125,000.
“First comes a full stomach, then comes ethics.”
– Bertolt Brecht (via maozedongisnotcool)
That Infuriating Uncritical Criticism
Nothing is more infuriating than liberals who imagine they are anti-capitalists but refuse to question their liberal assumptions. And though it might seem like a broad general statement to claim that nothing is more infuriating than this, I am hard-pressed to think of anything more infuriating. Honest reactionaries do not infuriate me; I know that they are my enemies and they know that they are...
“When ideology is overt - as it was in the Soviet era - then it focuses...”
– Edward Lucas, Central and Eastern Europe correspondent for The Economist (via ftm-communist)
this is exactly why capitalism is difficult to resist.
ironic, coming from the Economist (and quoted by a communist no less)
also lol, as if capitalist ideology is no less overt
The Role of Choice and Criticism in... →
malheureuxmarxist:
dziekuje:
malheureuxmarxist:
I don’t really understand where you’re coming from, it’s not about blaming women at all. Criticizing the neoliberal-feminist analysis that a ~choice is almost always feminist~ should be thoroughly criticized because that kind of analysis reinforces capitalist power structures that oppress women.
Meghan Murphy makes it very, very clear that...
“[T]he essence of man [menschliche Wesen = ‘human nature’] is no abstraction...”
– Karl Marx, Theses On Feuerbach (via psycho-tropic)
"True politics is exceptional, an exception to the...
Holy forgiveness! mercy! charity! faith! Holy!...
Anonymous asked: what are trots?
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went clubbing last night w/ a bunch of sexy trots,...
turkish oil wrestling
I just wanna be cute
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expatriat:
what kind of backwards developmentally retarded society do we live in where the answer to a female feeling like prostitution is a better choice than any other type of wage labor is to legalize prostitution instead of examining the labor conditions that made this kind of commodification possible? smdh yall jeez
if you understand why rape isn't just assault,...