But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth? - Fyodor Dostoevsky 1877
a year ago by RandolphCarter
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Hawkeye: War isn’t Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse.
2 years ago by jimmydoreisalefty
[Quote] First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty." ~ Edward R. Murrow, 1954
3 years ago by eightpix
"The problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology." ~ Edward O. Wilson, 9 September 2009.
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"We are medicating our existence... by consumption. We consume because we are killing the planet and we are killing the planet because we consume." Terrence McKenna, 1994.
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MLK: Socialism for the rich and rugged free enterprise capitalism for the poor
3 years ago by General
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Every major technological change in recent years traces most of its funding back to the state. Even early stage private sector Venture Capitalists come in much, much later, after the big breakthroughs
We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art.
I know that I won’t see socialism in the West in my lifetime, but I take solace in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King (ignore the religious part if you are not religious)
Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self destruction. No universal selfishness can bring social good to all. - William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
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From 86 Eighty Six. Reminds me of a Certain Country...
3 years ago by ComradeJenny
“[Though] we live in capitalism and its power seems inescapable, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.’ Ursula K. LE GUIN
Most of the world is capitalist and most of the world is poor. - Michael John Parenti
When the people will to live, Destiny must surely respond. Oppression shall then vanish. Fetters are certain to break - Aboul-Qacem Echebbi
3 years ago by small44
Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all. - John Maynard Keynes
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"Organize, organize, organize" - Kwame Ture
...it is difficult to see a path to a persistent increase in union density that is not concomitant with a rewiring of workplace networks and a transformation of American labor law." - Suresh Naidu
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