February 2013
america-wakiewakie:
The State’s favorite forms of resistance:
Pacifism
Petitions
Uneducated Philanthropy
Indoctrinated into you, prepacked and made to be your entire toolbox of methods by yours truly, institutionalized education.
“Liberal attitudes towards the other are characterized both by respect for...”
– Slavoj Žižek
I am taking it upon myself to create the tag ‘political correctness,’ and maybe in the future have discussions of just how this ‘intolerance of over-proximity’ has its place in the spectrum of our discourses; but I want to explain how it can paralyze the required openness needed to...
Gandhi and the myth of non-violence →
america-wakiewakie:
amodernmanifesto:
The ideas of Mahatma Gandhi have enjoyed a resurgence. The non-violent non-cooperation tactics used in the struggles against the Franklin Dam in Tasmania and the Greenham Common missile base in England owed their inspiration directly to him. Richard Attenborough’s Academy Award winning film “Gandhi” further revived the myth that his pacifist tactics won...
The American Revolution and Trotskyism →
america-wakiewakie:
amodernmanifesto:
Given the theme of my talk, I’d like to assert three things at the outset:
1. Revolution in this country is decisive to the success of the world socialist upheaval. The U.S. remains the capital of world capitalism, the epicenter of economic crisis, thief of labor and resources worldwide, noteholder to the debtor nations. It is the military life support...
“When the Russian Revolution began few people clearly understood the gulf which...”
– Lance Klafta, Ayn Rand and the Perversion of Libertarianism, 1993
I just figure all these liberatrians on Tumblr need education, or re-education.
(via america-wakiewakie)
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The Satanic Capitalist: Satanism and Objectivism →
satanic-capitalist:
Satanism and Objectivism
Nemo
Objectivism, the philosophy of Ayn Rand, is an acknowledged source for some of the Satanic philosophy as outlined in The Satanic Bible by Anton LaVey. Ayn Rand was a brilliant and insightful author and philosopher and her best-selling novels Atlas…
Developing: LAPD reportedly shot two women... by...
thepeoplesrecord:
February 7, 2013
Los Angeles police reportedly shot and injured two women delivering newspapers by accident while on a search in Torrance, Calif. for a former fellow officer who is suspected in several shootings. A second shooting was also reported involving Torrance police officers, but there were no known injuries. The Los Angeles Times reports:
The women, shot in the...
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Watchstopkillingourworld:
(via Bill McKibben: Ahead of Keystone XL Rally, Fossil Fuel Divestment Expands Across U.S. Campuses)
Sure wish I could go to DC on Valentine’s weekend!
