February 2012
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Being a communist in 2012 - Opinion - Al Jazeera... →
“The weakened communism we are left with in 2012 does not aspire to construct another Soviet Union, but rather proposes democratic models of social resistance outside the intellectual paradigms that dominated classical Marxism. These paradigms have been overcome because Marxism has gone through a profound deconstruction that has contributed to dismantling its rigid, violent and...
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January 2012
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“Generally, the process of repositioning has the power to deconstruct practices...”
– bell hooks, Representations of Whiteness in the Black Imagination (via hollovv)
bingo.
This is the problem with social justice tumblr blogs and the white feminists who so often like to refer to themselves as allies to people of color. When asked to consider, as hooks writes, how they “might be...
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DagSeoul: Positions, Populations, Punk, Poetics:... →
dagseoul:
seltaire asked you: There was a phrase you used called “betraying white privilege” - what do you mean by that?
I use it in a specific context. I have had to learn three things. Bear with me. I was thinking about how to answer your question and wanted to say three things. I haven’t written…
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stupid politicians! nyah! “anybody who tells you that america is in decline or that our influence has waned…doesn’t know what they’re talking about!”—bho. that’s what i get for watching a pep talk i guess. “those of us who’ve been sent here to serve” my ass.
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“Fields of purple poppies are blossoming around us, a noon breeze is frolicking...”
– Isaac Babel, from “Crossing the River Zbrucz” from Red Cavalry
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Dear Andrew Sullivan: Why Focus On Obama's Dumbest... →
After reading Andrew Sullivan’s Newsweek essay about President Obama, his critics, and his re-election bid, I implore him to ponder just one question. How would you have reacted in 2008 if any Republican ran promising to do the following?
(1) Codify indefinite detention into law; (2) draw up a secret kill list of people, including American citizens, to assassinate without due process; (3)...
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