there is a riot outside my window (maybe?)

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oldcinemafanatic: Audrey Hepburn, Sabrina

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oldcinemafanatic:

Audrey Hepburn, Sabrina

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(Laughter and Applause)

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(Laughter and Applause)

spiritkatsoul: You think it’s cute to take pictures wearing...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 19:26:33 -0400

spiritkatsoul:

You think it’s cute to take pictures wearing warbonnets and glittery “warpaint”? Do you realize how racist that is? Maybe you should get educated on the people that you are so ignorantly making fun of. It’s not cute, it’s not sexy, it doesn’t make you hip. Here, look at these children wearing “normal people” clothes. Is that hip and cool? You know what these children all have in common? They were ripped away from their families, and shoved into reform schools to forget their culture. Their mothers and fathers and grandfathers and grandmothers were murdered and driven away. It’s not so hip and cool now is it?? “Indianer”… pardon my language, but fuck you!

“American Dream”: Food loaded into Dumpsters while Hundreds of Hungry Americans Restrained by Police | Global Research

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 13:55:39 -0400

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Hundreds of poor people waiting outside of a closed grocery store for the possibility of getting the remaining food is not the picture of the “American Dream.” Yet on March 23, outside the Laney Walker Supermarket in Augusta, Ga., that is exactly what happened.

Pong Wolfgun’s insight:

this is good.

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From New York to Hong Kong: Striking workers shut down fast food joints, ports and schools | rabble.ca

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 13:47:18 -0400

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Hundreds of New York City fast-food workers, fed up with poverty wages and abusive working conditions, walked off the job this Thursday, demanding minimum pay of $15 an hour and the right to organize and collectively bargain without fear of retaliation. The strike echoes a similar walkout that took place in the city last November and exemplifies how low-wage non-unionized workers across the U.S. are organizing to fight back against exploitation.

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Rosa Luxemburg: What Does the Spartacus League Want? (December 1918)

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 13:42:10 -0400

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Rosa Luxemburg: What Does the Spartacus League Want? (December 1918)

Pong Wolfgun’s insight:

From the uppermost summit of the state down to the tiniest parish, the proletarian mass must therefore replace the inherited organs of bourgeois class rule – the assemblies, parliaments, and city councils – with its own class organs – with workers’ and soldiers’ councils. It must occupy all the posts, supervise all functions, measure all official needs by the standard of its own class interests and the tasks of socialism. Only through constant, vital, reciprocal contact between the masses of the people and their organs, the workers’ and soldiers’ councils, can the activity of the people fill the state with a socialist spirit.

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Wilhelm Liebknecht: The Spider and the Fly (1889)

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 13:40:57 -0400

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Wilhelm Liebknecht: The Spider and the Fly (1889)

Pong Wolfgun’s insight:

You all know him, that pot-bellied insect with the hairy sticky body, who lurks in dark places, as far as possible from the light of day, and spins his deadly web in which the poor careless or thoughtless Fly is caught and killed. That ugly monster with round glassy eyes and crooked spindly forelegs so handy for seizing and choking his victim is the Spider.

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A&F 2003 - Back to School

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 13:39:32 -0400

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Scribd is the world’s largest social reading and publishing site.

Pong Wolfgun’s insight:

Zizek, you go to school to learn sex

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Marxism, Psychoanalysis and Reality by Erich Fromm 1966

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 13:37:23 -0400

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Pong Wolfgun’s insight:

During the last 35 years, I have written many works, in which — under different aspects — I tried to explain that there are not only points where Marxism and psychoanalysis overlap but that there is also an intrinsic interdependency between the two. This means, I do not only believe that a synthesis is possible but also an existential necessity.

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Frankfurt School: The End of Utopia by Herbert Marcuse 1967

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 13:31:08 -0400

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Pong Wolfgun’s insight:

Today any form of the concrete world, of human life, any transformation of the technical and natural environment is a possibility, and the locus of this possibility is historical. Today we have the capacity to turn the world into hell, and we are well on the way to doing so. We also have the capacity to turn it into the opposite of hell. This would mean the end of utopia, that is, the refutation of those ideas and theories that use the concept of utopia to denounce certain socio-historical possibilities. It can also be understood as the “end of history” in the very precise sense that the new possibilities for a human society and its environment can no longer be thought of as continuations of the old, nor even as existing in the same historical continuum with them. Rather, they presuppose a break with the historical continuum; they presuppose the qualitative difference between a free society and societies that are still unfree, which, according to Marx, makes all previous history only the prehistory of mankind.

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Death of the West 1of2: Frankfurt School, Cultural Marxism, Political Correctness

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 13:30:04 -0400

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A video by the Free Congress Foundation. It should be noted that the agenda for the breakdown of western institutions, such as Christian values and the famil…

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Adorno: Properly Written Texts

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 13:27:30 -0400

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“Properly written texts are like spiders’ webs: tight, concentric, transparent, well-spun and firm. They draw into themselves all the creatures of the air. Metaphors flitting hastily through them b…

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critical-theory: Slavoj Zizek Responds To His...

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 13:27:19 -0400

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critical-theory: “Slavoj Zizek Responds To His Critics “I admire my friend/enemy Alain Badiou that he made this step, but I am not ready to follow him here. Namely, there is something nonetheless…

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The Authoritarian Personality by Erich Fromm 1957

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 13:21:30 -0400

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Pong Wolfgun’s insight:

What do we mean by “authoritarian personality”? We usually see a clear difference between the individual who wants to rule, control, or restrain others and the individual who tends to submit, obey, or to be humiliated. To use a somewhat friendlier term, we might talk of the leader and his followers. As natural as the difference between the ruling and the ruled might — in many ways — be, we also have to admit that these two types, or as we can also say, these two forms of authoritarian personality are actually tightly bound together

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Frankfurt School: The Influence of Social Factors in Child Development. Erich Fromm 1958

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 13:18:11 -0400

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Pong Wolfgun’s insight:

The goal of the education of children is not only to teach them, more or less intellectual knowledge, nor only to teach them virtues in the sense of honesty, courage, etc. The functions of any individual, within society, go far beyond the above mentioned: they must learn to work and to consume within the norms demanded by the means of production and the consumption patterns of their group and the society in which they live.

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