February 2012
4 posts
January 2012
7 posts
Stenography Journalism →
A quick description of how vapid and uninformative much of modern journalism has become.
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“Youth talks of ‘getting’ or ‘accepting’ ideas! But youth...”
– Randolph Bourne, Youth and Life
December 2011
5 posts
“When a [anti-labor] detective dies, he goes so low that he has to climb a ladder...”
– Big Bill Haywood, 1911
November 2011
2 posts
October 2011
1 post
Terminology
Me: Do you know what hot boxing is Steve?
Steve: Oh, do you mean fish bowling?
July 2011
1 post
poppys let the sunshine in →
June 2011
3 posts
A summer for Marx
My Marxist summer is getting off to a great start - and I just spent some of my store credit at Raven Books on more stuff to read. I’m enjoying Francis Wheen’s biography of Marx a lot - it’s pretty light-hearted and entertaining, a real book for the beach.
The best quote so far is from Engels, who in his late teens formed a pogonophiles’ club in Bremen to upset the...
“Even the most ‘totalitarian’ Stalinist ideology is radically...”
– Slavoj Zizek
May 2011
8 posts
And I Should Know →
Classic
Me: But don’t you kind of wish you just skipped college? Max: No. I think it was good to go to college, if only because I met two great roommates. Me: Really!?! You really mean that? Max: Ya, I fucking love Frank and Anont.
“All progress in capitalist agriculture is a progress in the art, not only of...”
– Karl Marx, environmentalist
“The class struggle, which always remains in view for a historian schooled in...”
– Walter Benjamin
April 2011
14 posts
Jon Stewart says goodbye to Glenn Beck →
Career Prospects Looking Better →
March 2011
15 posts
500,000 March in London →
Football →
