January 2012
44 posts
“The human problem of modern capitalism can be formulated this way:
Modern...”
– Erich Fromm, The Art of Love
Love’s Disintegration in Western Society
(via alexandrumitroi)
Modern capitalism— i.e. liberalism—has betrayed its promise of freedom, equality, and individuality. It has ultimately created an atmosphere in which political, psychological, and racial oppression thrive....
December 2011
86 posts
Ladies & Gentlemen, I give you, the 2012...
Michelle Bachmann: "Don’t misunderstand. I am not here bashing people who are homosexuals, who are lesbians, who are bisexual, who are transgender. We need to have profound compassion for people who are dealing with the very real issue of sexual dysfunction in their life and sexual identity disorders.” (2004)
Ron Paul: "The rate of AIDS infection is on the increase again. From the gay point of view, the reasons seem quite sensible. First, these men don't really see a reason to live past their fifties. They are not married, they have no children, and their lives are centered on new sexual partners... because sex is the center of their lives, they want it to be as pleasurable as possible, which means unprotected sex. Third, they enjoy the attention & pity that comes with being sick." (1995 in a newsletter)
Rick Perry: "I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm a Christian, but you don't need to be in the pew every Sunday to know there's something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can't openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school. " (2011 in a campaign ad)
Mitt Romney: "I should tell my story. I'm also unemployed." (2011 while speaking to unemployed people in Florida. Romney's net worth is over $200 million.)
Newt Gingrich: "She's not young enough or pretty enough to be the wife of the President. And besides, she has cancer." (1994, about his first wife)
Rick Santorum: "Is anyone saying same-sex couples can’t love each other? I love my children. I love my friends, my brother. Heck, I even love my mother-in-law. Should we call these relationships marriage, too?" (2008)
Michelle Bachmann: "Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn't even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas." (2009 during a debate)
Mitt Romney: "PETA is not happy that my dog likes fresh air." (2006, when questioned about driving 12 hours with his dog in a cage strapped to the top of his car)
left collection: In the US, 3.5 million are... →
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL:
“In the last few days, the U.S. government census figures have revealed that 1 in 2 Americans have fallen into poverty or are struggling to live on low incomes. And we know that the financial hardships faced by our neighbors, colleagues, and others in our…
“… he does not fulfil himself in his work but denies himself, has a feeling of...”
– Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 (via cultureofresistance)
“Bureaucracy becomes the perfect screen to mask culpability. If everyone is a...”
– Derrick Jensen and George Draffan,
Welcome to the Machine: Science, Surveillance, and the Culture of Control
(via cultureofresistance)
Appalling Israeli Army t-shirts spark controversy →
leftcollection:
Some recent Israeli army t-shirts include - among many other appalling cartoons - a picture of a pregnant Palestinian woman in cross hairs, it’s caption reading “one shot, two kills.” With a foreign minister who claims that “minorities are the largest problem in the world” and a government that systematically ignores any condemnation of its war crimes, Israel has proven to not be...
“Visionary feminism is a wise and loving politics. It is rooted in the love of...”
– Bell Hooks (via wearethedescendantsofstars)
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Can everyone just repeat after me? →
theraptorwhomurderedlove:
I do not have the right to put my hands on other people without their permission. I do not have the right to turn into an angry jackass with those people when they tell me that they are uncomfortable with me touching them. I do not have the right to continue touching them after they have told me that they are uncomfortable with it.
And can we all just keep repeating...
“Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and...”
– Frantz Fanon (via cultureofresistance)
“Our research shows that blacks comprise 62.7 percent and whites 36.7 percent of...”
– Human Rights Watch - “Racial Disparities in the War on Drugs” (via cultureofresistance)
“Human beings were trying to behave as human beings and not cogs in the...”
– George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia (via rethinksocialism)
“Science is not “neutral,” nor is it purely beholden to positivism. People do...”
– More Race Science: They Lock Up Those “Crazy” Negro Agitators and Call Them “Schizophrenic,” regarding Jonathan Metzl’s The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease (via thetart)
this is my father’s story
(via guerrillamamamedicine)
Autistic people superior in multiple areas:... →
newwavefeminism:
soydulcedeleche:
sofriel:
aspergersissues:
We must stop considering the different brain structure of autistic individuals to be a deficiency, as research reveals that many autistics — not just “savants” — have qualities and abilities that may exceed those of people who do not have the condition, according to a provocative new article.
“Scientists suddenly realize the...
Culture Of Resistance: 11 Facts From 2011 →
think-progress:
1. The CIA is monitoring up to 5 million tweets per day.
2. Income inequality in America is worse than in Ancient Rome.
3. Twenty-three straight polls find Americans overwhelmingly want to raise taxes to pay down debt.
4. 68% of millionaires support raising…
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“If we were only disrupting our own genetic structure and hindering our own...”
– Derrick Jensen and Aric McBay, What We Leave Behind (via cultureofresistance)
“You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your...”
– Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, “The Communist Manifesto” (via cultureofresistance)
“Cuenta la historia oficial que Vasco Núñez de Balboa fue el primer hombre que...”
– Eduardo Galeano, Espejos: una historia casi universal.
“The official history tells that Vasco Núñez de Balboa was the first man who saw, from a peak in Panama, the two oceans. Those who already lived there, where they blind?
Who were the first to give names to corn and potatoes and tomatoes and...
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“The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said “This is mine,” and...”
– Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Social Contract (via mutualaddiction)
See, even classical liberals are right sometimes.
(via nodamncatnodamncradle)
Most of the history of the Commons that i have been reading says that “many crimes, wars, and murders…horrors and misfortunes” happened to facilitate the...
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The dirty little secrets about losing your job →
“To myself,” she wrote, “I am still the same skilled, ambitious, generous, curious person I was three months ago. In the national debate, I am a person who needs to be drug-tested and monitored, who wants to take a check for doing nothing.”
—Being downwardly mobile isn’t as easy as it sounds. Believe me, after three months of unemployment, I have lowered my...
“You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to...”
– http://www.dressaday.com/2006/10/you-dont-have-to-be-pretty.html (via cultureofresistance)
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“Homophobia: the fear that gay men will treat you the way you treat women.”
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Five things we never thanked the Soviet Union for →
“We never got to communism with a human face, but thanks to the USSR, we did achieve capitalism with a human face.”
1. Women’s rights
2. Labor laws
3. The 2nd World War and post-war reconstruction
4. The anti-colonial drive
5. Scientific discoveries
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“Disdain for “political correctness” is often positioned as a concern...”
– http://www.whattamisaid.com/2010/02/conservatives-political-correctness-and.html
When people complain about political correctness, all I hear is “I want to use racist/sexist/ableist/etc slurs without being called out for being a bigot”
“But it seems paradoxical to celebrate the death of Marxism in the same breath...”
– Fedric Jameson, The Valences of the Dialectic
This is the great irony of the post-modern age. We live in a world where capitalism is increasingly more total than ever before; it is a system that has reified concepts and the human psyche like never before; it is a system that has subordinated...
“Cowardice asks the question, “Is it safe?” Expediency asks the question, “Is it...”
– Martin Luther King Jr. (via newwavefeminism)
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“The thing about patriarchy is that individual men, gay and straight, are often...”
– This happens to me all the time, and it always hits me like a slap in the face.
“I’ve been severely criticized for saying worms are more important than people… I...”
– Captain Paul Watson (via cultureofresistance)
The Shocking Ways the Corporate Prison Industry... →
truth-has-a-liberal-bias:
The United States, with just 5 percent of the world’s population, currently holds 25 percent of the world’s prisoners, and for the last 30 years America’s business entrepreneurs have found a lucrative way to cash in on the incarceration surplus: private for-profit prisons.
While the implications of an industry that locks human beings in cages for profit is an old...
