My trek through Capital 2 begins…
Since money, as the existing and active concept of value, confounds and exchanges everything, it is the universal confusion and exchange of all things, an inverted world, the confusion and exchange of all natural and human qualities.
—Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts (1844)
Communism is the positive supersession of private property as human self-estrangement, and hence the true appropriation of the human essence through and for man; it is the complete restoration of man to himself as a social, i.e. human, being, a restoration which has become conscious and which takes place within the entire wealth of previous periods of development. This communism, as fully developed naturalism, equals humanism, and as fully developed humanism equals naturalism; it is the genuine resolution of the conflict between man and nature, and between man and man, the true resolution of the conflict between existence and being, between objectification and self-affirmation, between freedom and necessity, between individual and species. It is the solution of the riddle of history and knows itself to be the solution.
—Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts (1844)
The existence of capital is his [the worker] existence, his life, for it determines the content of his life in a manner indifferent to him.
—Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts (1844)
“Labor is the father of material wealth, the earth is its mother.” -Karl Marx,Capital I
Most Marxists I know are patriarchal. (See what I did there?)
Wither Derrick Jensen: Transphobia within Deep Green Resistance
I am an uncompromising, merciless asshole. I pull no punches
go get ‘em, Sean Hannity
Man lives from nature, i.e. nature is his body, and he must maintain a continuing dialogue with it if he is not to die. To say that man’s physical and mental life is linked to nature simply means that nature is linked to itself, for man is a part of nature.
—Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts (1844)
Bill Maher is taken apart by Glenn Greenwald for trying to absolve the US from any responsibility for the mass slaughter and destruction in Muslim countries, blaming it on Islamic fundamentalism, as if the Afghanistan and Iraq wars never happened, as if the US wasn’t pushing for more war in Iran, as if it isn’t intervening in Somalia and Yemen.Wow, what a great week. Bill Maher is being humiliated left and right. Maybe there is some justice in the world…
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Support Rachel Ivey!
I noticed this post going around which is yet another attempt at a smear campaign of a trans-critical feminist. Let’s band together and support Rachel Ivey and help her keep her speaking engagements. The relevant events/contact info are below. There is also a form letter for those who don’t want to or feel like writing out something on their own. If you live in a region where she is speaking and plan to attend an event in support, please feel free to add a sentence or two mentioning that in your letter!
June 1: Florida International University - Biscayne Bay (Miami, FL)
https://www.facebook.com/events/467969713285770/
Florida International University
Phone: 305-919-5500
Email: bbcinfo@fiu.edu
Office of Campus Life
Phone: 305-919-5804
Email: bbcclo@fiu.edu
June 24: City College of New York (New York, NY)
https://www.facebook.com/events/377717232347861/
Office of Student Life
Phone: 212-650-5002
Email: studentlife@ccny.cuny.edu
June 28: First Unitarian Church (Philadelphia, PA)
Phone: 215-563-3980
Email: info@philauu.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/philauu
July 4: University of Toronto (Toronto, Ontario)
Phone: 416-978-2011
July 19: The Democracy Center (Boston, MA)
https://www.facebook.com/events/521052471263534
Phone: 617-492-8855
Email: info@democracycenter.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Democracy-Center/110212969005483
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Dear Madam or Sir,
This letter is in resounding support of your choice in booking Rachel Ivey for a speaking engagement. It has come to my attention that there is a campaign meant to smear her name, and I would like to take a moment to advocate that you keep this booking.
You may be receiving form letters describing Ivey and Deep Green Resistance’s positions regarding the contemporary transgender movement and even Ivey’s personal connections to other well-known radical feminists. These declarations are simplified and meant to paint Ivey as a villain by relying on common stereotypes of radical feminists.
Criticism of the politics raised by the transgender movement is very different than a wholesale hatred of people who choose to transition. This nuance is very often missed by the very same people spamming your venue with blanket declarations of transphobia.
I personally urge you to consider standing against censorship. Women with controversial and salient platforms most certainly have an eager audience awaiting them, despite contrary opinion.
With regards,
[your name, friend!]
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No compromise in the fight for Women’s Liberation!
(Source: makeanewbeginning)
