February 2012
254 posts
“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world,...”
– Karl Marx (via philosophy-quotes)
So happy someone finally has the opiate quote in context.
Karl Marx liked a lot of things about religion! He thought it a great way to instill morality and philosophy into the masses. His goal was a world where that wasn’t needed.
He also saw the religious...
Racism, sexism and exploitation: Behind the life &... →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
By Monica Moorehead
Under capitalism — a system that puts profits before human needs — genuine support needed for developing one’s talent is generally not made available, much less encouraged. Luck, along with having influential connections, plays a central role in many instances on whether the individuals become famous or not. What usually happens is that many talented...
attn bitchitoldyouigottaste
elfgrandfather:
Sorry to be posting it like this but it’s way too long for an ask and I couldn’t find the submission button on your blog because I’m a dumb. Either way:
I like how you tell me this, as if Kafka’s lusting for other men is cool but not worthy of being transcribed in every detail and SENT TO ME elfgrandfather how can you play a sister like this
Okay so sadly a lot of Kafka’s...
“Ours is a bourgeois revolution, we Marxists say, therefore, the workers must...”
– Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (via justanotherwastedyouth)
“If tomorrow, Morocco were to declare war on France, India on England, Persia or...”
– V.I. Lenin, Socialism and War (via fuckyeahmarxismleninism)
“When the woman answered the door, she looked at my daughter and said, ‘We don’t...”
– Girl Scout troop leader Kim Douglas • Discussing a recent situation her 10-year-old daughter faced when going door-to-door to sell cookies. Douglas’ daughter, by the way, didn’t know what abortion was. “It left my daughter very shocked, confused,” Douglas said. “She said, ‘Mommy, something creepy...
“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the...”
– Noam Chomsky (via eagleinyourmind)
bitchitoldyouigottaste:
marxmaterialized:
bitchitoldyouigottaste:
marxmaterialized replied to your post: Of course! Little known fact, the Kremlin is actually a gay night club and they just do government business during the day as a cover. True story. www[.]marxists[.]org/archive/trotsky/1925/lenin/08[.]htm Enjoy Trotsky’s love for Lenin in this lovely.
Oh Trotsky loved him some of...
bitchitoldyouigottaste replied to your post: I love how Trotsky sees class antagonism in the family dynamics of his youth.
YOU DON’T KNOW ME MOM AND DAD
When he got into populism when he was 17, his family made fun of him and bet that ten years later he would look back on his “silly beliefs” and laugh, to which he responded, “I refuse to place kopecks on my beliefs.”
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I love how Trotsky sees class antagonism in the...
bitchitoldyouigottaste:
marxmaterialized replied to your post: Of course! Little known fact, the Kremlin is actually a gay night club and they just do government business during the day as a cover. True story. www[.]marxists[.]org/archive/trotsky/1925/lenin/08[.]htm Enjoy Trotsky’s love for Lenin in this lovely.
Oh Trotsky loved him some of Lenin’s strong hands. The way he describes strong...
Talking to strangers on Omegle about Trotsky.
Good way to spend my night instead of that sleeping business.
I cannot possibly understand my father.
One day he’s like “Rosa Luxemburg is awesome I’m so glad you’re reading about her and into all that” and I’m like
“DADDY I NEVER KNEW YOU WAS SO GREAT”
and then he’s like “Yeah I think I’m voting for Santorum.”
I don’t know if I should be insulted or worried.
Maybe both.
“During this visit of Lenin it was decided to take him to the opera. N.I....”
– Trotsky in his Lenin: Notes for a Biographer in the chapter Lenin and the Old Iskra II.
Trotsky was paying more attention to Lenin that to the opera.
The translation from marxists.org is totally different from that of the book in which I first read this.
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“The first session of the Second Council of Soviets took place in Smolny. Lenin...”
– Trotsky on the revolution in his Lenin: Notes for a Biographer.
This is precious.
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truth-has-a-liberal-bias:
afternoonsnoozebutton:
Gingrich: “This is the administration where if you’re America’s enemy, you’re safe.”
I think Republicans have a quota of stupid things they have to say every day, or they get kicked out of the party.
“Misogyny is a systematic and institutionalized form of bigotry and oppression...”
–
Sixtyforty (In response to a man asking “can’t we all just be friends?” and “isn’t misandry just as bad as misogyny?”)
I'll make a man out of you.
radicalqueery:
Culturally, socially, and physically, we assign humans a gender based on appearance. Popular culture has very rigid definitions of ‘male’ and ‘female’ and imposes them on today’s youth at any costs. Seventeen, Teen Beat, the list goes on. How to make the cute boy in homeroom notice you with this new pair of jeans, this new brand of makeup, and so forth. Or, for the boys…If...
“The coming days will reap the fruit of all society’s anxious hopes and all the...”
– Leon Trotsky
Up to the ninth of January
(Published in 1905)
“The usual criticism of anarchism by present-day Social-Democrats has boiled down...”
– Vladimir Lenin “Controversy with the Anarchists”
The State and Revolution (1917)
“Millions of people are going to see imperialism for what it really is. The...”
– David North, The End of the USSR, Labor Publications, 1992, p. 25 (via sometrotskyist)
“Every time I read an article about conservatives being “pro- life” I am reminded...”
– The ‘Safe, Legal, Rare’ Illusion - NYTimes.com
YES.
(via golden-notebook)
This is from the COMMENTS of the article. The piece itself was typical bullshit by the end.
(via seriouslyamerica)
I want the Airwaves: Why can't education be free?... →
anticapitalist:
When people talk about “higher education”, they are not talking about intense learning in a field of your desire. They’re not talking about developing yourself into an intellectual. They are talking about preparing yourself for corporate slavery.
The various Bachelors, PhD,…
“Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kids of...”
– Karl Marx, The Poverty Of Philosophy, Ch. 2, “Seventh and last observation” (via aidsnegligee)
“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity, nothing exceeds the criticisms...”
– Herman Melville (via pamwtka)
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New favorite quotes.
And from my two favorite people.
“Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.”
-Vladimir Lenin
Aaaaaaaand!
“Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless...