"The interconnexion between sadism, masochism, success-worship, power-worship, nationalism, and totalitarianism is a huge subject whose edges have barely been ...
"The sexual effect of a uniform, the erotically provocative effect effect of rhythmically executed goose stepping, the exhibitionistic nature of militaristic...
When asked how she managed to save hundreds of enslaved African Americans via the Underground Railroad during the Civil War, she replied bitterly, “I could ...
"Trade in general being nothing else but the exchange of labour for labour, the value of all things is...most justly measured by labour." THE WORKS OF B....
"It is a received opinion that in certain periods people lived from pillage alone. But, for pillage to be possible, there must be some thing to be pillaged,...
"Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go." http://www.iww.org.au/node/10 "Would you have freedom from wage-slavery.." Joe Hill ...
"Why must man's vocation always be to distinguish himself from animals?" http://www.iww.org.au/node/10 "Would you have freedom from wage-slavery.." Joe Hill ...
Oh is there no Dr Suess! Very cruel fellow worker, very cruel. ... -- But while I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the...
Haw! I tried sending that with 'plain text' turned off and now, I've lost it. Oh well.... Mike B) ... Get the name you always wanted with the new y7mail email...
For even though the question "where from" presents no problems, the question "where to?" is a rich source of confusion....If we have no business with the...
slavery/work chained whipped brutalized with no life of their/our own working the fields/offices all day yes baas, no baas losing wives, babies the one shot in...
"..the product becomes a real product only by being consumed. For example, a garment becomes a real garment only in the act of being worn; a house where no one...
July 6, 2007 After philosopher Richard Rorty's death a few weeks ago, my colleagues at the U.S. Intellectual History web log wondered aloud how important Rorty...
As the Liberty lads o'er the sea Bought their freedom, and cheaply, with blood, So we, boys, we Will die fighting, or live free, And down with all kings but...
"The one tendency throws the labourers on to the streets and makes a part of the population redundant, and the absorbs them again and extends wage-slavery...
We came out of Africa ages ago We roamed o’er this planet in various tribes But our numbers have grown We’re hitting six billion We don’t need any more ...
Upon the other hand, Socialism itself will be of value simply because it will lead to Individualism. Socialism, Communism, or whatever one chooses to call it,...
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"As a relaxation in the evenings I have been reading Appian on the Roman Civil Wars, in the original Greek text. A very valuable book. The chap is an Egyptian...
"Thus things have now come to such a pass that the individuals must appropriate the existing totality of productive forces, not only to achieve self-activity,...
Not bad. I get the feeling though that whoever he was addressing it was not the ordinary working man and woman of that time or of any time. This to me is a...
Thanks also, for this piece. A bit of trivia - at the funeral's of my communist parents, and my communist uncles, the "Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves", from...
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... It took the movie "Spartacus" for me to know that he even existed. I was in my teens and quite naive. I did purchase Howard Fast's novel after seeing...
... This piece is from THE GERMAN IDEOLOGY. At the time, Marx, who was in his 20s and who had just finished his dissertaion on the Greek philosopher,...
Hi Mike, I will in due course repond to what Miek wrote. She has a point, but she also misses the main thrust of what Marx had to say. Cheers, Vivienne ... ...
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Mar 16, 2008 2:22 am
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Translated from Arabic by Dr. Aida Seif Al-Dawla The jailer said: "My shift will end now. Do you need anything?" "What a lucky man you are! You will go back to...
One of my favourites of Afeif's poetry. Viv D ... From: Mike Ballard To: philosophicalcreativity@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 1:53 PM Subject:...
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This is an altogether creepy replication of the inner states of mind that perpetuate themselves in class society. The notion that one should submit to all...
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