Tag: Karl Marx
January 19, 1863: This Week in History
Read More »On January 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln wrote a letter to textile workers in Manchester, England, a city with deep ties to the slave trade, thanking them for their sacrifice and solidarity in supporting an embargo on cotton harvested by enslaved workers.
“Money is the jealous god of Israel…”
Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man – and turns them into commodities. Money is the universal self-established value of all things. It has, therefore, robbed the whole world – both the world of men and nature – of its specific value. Money is the estranged essence of man’s work and man’s existence, and this alien essence dominates him, and he worships it.
On The Jewish Question
“Every moment of life wants to tell us something, but we do not want to hear what it has to say” +
From Nietzsche’s Unpublished Writings from the period of Unfashionable Observations:
Every moment of life wants to tell us something, but we do not want to hear what it has to say: when we are alone and quiet we are afraid that something will be whispered into our ear and hence we despise quiet and drug ourselves with sociability. The human being evades suffering as best he can, but even more so he evades the meaning of endured suffering; he seeks to forget what lies behind it by constantly setting new goals.
Every moment of life wants to tell us something, but we do not want to hear what it has to say
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Nietzsche, Marx, and the Modern Left
Read More »Mao: Directive On The Question Of Class Distinction
THERE CAN BE NO TRACE OF SOCIALISM IN US-CONTROLLED LANDS. ON THE “REVOLUTION” IN ROJAVA +
[Crosspost] On Fear, Contradiction, and the Self
I’m not really a fan of Stoicism, but I haven’t really given it a fair chance, so I decided to download Meditations by Marcus Aurelius and Seneca’s Letters on Ethics. I have a tendency to cherry pick quotes for inspiration though, so I looked up some from Seneca.
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The Fracture of Reciprocity
“If you love without evoking love in return – that is, if your loving as loving does not produce reciprocal love; if through a living expression of yourself as a loving person you do not make yourself a beloved one, then your love is impotent – a misfortune.” – Karl Marx
Read More »Communism Is Post-Scarcity Consumerism
And leftists who think otherwise are actively in the way of the world they claim to want.
Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 
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