June 2011
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“[T]he chief characteristics of Capitalism [in Russia) have not disappeared and...”
– Socialist Party of Great Britain twenty years after the Bolshevik revolution (via mirrorfloatinginwater)
Jun 1st
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Jun 1st
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“The only adequate conceptual framework for understanding the city is one which...”
– David Harvey (2009) Social Justice and The City p. 27 (via geogthoughts)
Jun 1st
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Jun 1st
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WatchWatch
fewdull: Very well produced protest video from the streets of Spain. 27M BCN REVOLUTION (by Paco Ruiz). 
Jun 1st
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May 2011
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May 23rd
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“Editor’s Note” by John Macfarlane | The Walrus |... →
The truth about Canadian crime statistics.
May 23rd
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“In practice nobody cares whether work is useful or useless, productive or...”
– George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London (via middleclasscommunist)
May 23rd
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Leftist Parties in New York Have New Appeal →
christianjoseph: An interesting article on the state of the Communist, Socialist and Social Democratic parties in New York. I found this quote particularly relevant: “Socialism won’t come to this country until tens of millions decide capitalism doesn’t work for them,” Mr. Webb said. “If you’re a revolutionary, if you’re a socialist, you have to have patience.”
May 23rd
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R-E-S-P-E-C-T →
Sociologists, and respect.
May 22nd
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“We humans, in a fit of adolescent hubris, have sought to liberate ourselves from...”
– David Korten (via azspot) I know I’m going to sound like a broken record here, but this is a result of living in a system—more or less now, worldwide—dominated by private property. The result is alienation. Not alienation in the sense that one does not feel ‘connected’ to people,...
May 19th
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Whether I would like to admit it or not, today was the first real day of spring in Vancouver. And on days like today—sunny, relatively warm, but most importantly, dry—I often try to take the time to sit in a park, and simply bear witness to my surroundings. Today, I looked at trees that would long outlive me, and felt energy beneath my feet. There was a sense of not only the majesty of being, but...
May 18th
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“What is property, what is capital in their present form? For the capitalist and...”
– Mikhail Bakunin, The Capitalist System.
May 17th
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“For Marx, the question of freedom should not be located primarily in the...”
– Slavoj Zizek (via fewdull)
May 12th
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May 11th
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“One of the central precepts of Marx’s historical materialism is that we have to...”
– David Harvey, The Urban Experience (via effusionofbiopower) This is the most concise definition of the fetishism of the commodity I’ve ever read.  I love David Harvey.  (via fuckyeahanthrotheory)
May 11th
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“There are currently many connections between movements and many shared...”
– Pierre Bordieu, “Against the Policy of Depoliticization”, translated by Loïc Wacquant, Studies in Political Economy, 69, Autumn 2002, 34-35. Originally published in French in Contrefeux 2, Paris, 2001.  (via butterflyhunt)
May 6th
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May 6th
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May 5th
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Super Sad True Jobs Story →
But a recent article by David Wessel of The Wall Street Journal provided startling evidence of the impact of globalization. His analysis of data from the Commerce Department indicates that major multinational corporations cut their employment in the United States by 2.9 million during the 2000s while increasing employment overseas by 2.4 million. This is a big change from the 1990s, when those...
May 5th
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May 5th
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May 5th
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Alan Wolfe Reviews Lawrence A. Scaff's "Max Weber... →
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May 4th
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The Global Economy’s Corporate Crime Wave →
May 4th
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“The weapon of criticism cannot, of course, replace criticism of the weapon,...”
– Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right (1843) (via threepennypolly) one of my favourite quotes (via easternblocparty)
May 4th
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Why Ayn Rand and Her Legion of Followers Are... →
In short, the whole story of America’s 19th-century railroad boom was the exact opposite of what Rand’s ideology imagines. “Other than having the stock promoters, who were out there creating the whole idea of the railroad, the individual—the real individual, not the corporate individual—was pretty much absent from the scene,” Perelman concluded. But there’s another sense in which railroad...
May 4th
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May 4th
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“This completely materialist conception of history is one of the greatest...”
– Georgi Plekhanov, Anarchism and Socialism.
May 4th
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May 4th
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May 3rd
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“In 1965, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. described how the strategy of...”
– Charles M. Blow (via azspot)
May 3rd
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On Phenomenological Sociology →
For studiousadventures. If you would like something more specific, let me know and I will pass it on to my colleague.
May 3rd
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Osama Bin Laden
To those who are so quick to celebrate death, let us remember: “He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.” (Nietzsche)
May 3rd
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studiousadventures asked: Can you post something on phenomenology? As I explore it more, it sounds more and more ridiculous, and I'd like to find something that's challenging enough for me to see a strong argument. Thanks!
May 3rd
so-fizzle-my-nizzle asked: i saw this video and i just think its ridiculous how quick everyone is to get security involved...what do you think?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaoLU6zKaws
May 3rd
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