Many great public issues as well as many private troubles are described in terms of the “psychiatric” — often, it seems, in a pathetic attempt to avoid the large issues and problems of modern society.
— C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination
Tag: Karl Marx
Every beginning is difficult…
DISABLED COMMUNISTS AND ANARCHISTS
The Militia and the Mole
This whole story seems suspicious to me. The overemphasis that the mole was a loner, that he was a criminal, and legally changed his name, etc.
John Williams kept a backpack filled with everything he’d need to go on the run: three pairs of socks; a few hundred dollars cash; makeshift disguises and lock-picking gear; medical supplies, vitamins and high-calorie energy gels; and thumb drives that each held more than 100 gigabytes of encrypted documents, which he would quickly distribute if he were about to be arrested or killed.
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Cats Studying Marxism
What is Commodity Fetishism?
China Embodies the Values of Santa Claus Better than the U.S.
Frederick Engels: On Anti-Semitism
Frederick Engels: On Anti-Semitism
…But whether you might not be doing more harm than good with your anti-Semitism is something I would ask you to consider. For anti-Semitism betokens a retarded culture, which is why it is found only in Prussia and Austria, and in Russia too. Anyone dabbling in anti-Semitism, either in England or in America, would simply be ridiculed, while in Paris the only impression created by M. Drumont’s writings – wittier by far than those of the German anti-Semites – was that of a somewhat ineffectual flash in the pan.
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Capital Volume One: Preface to the First German Edition
Karl Marx in New-York Tribune 1859: From Population, Crime and Pauperism
Karl Marx in New-York Tribune 1859: From Population, Crime and Pauperism
There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery, and increases in crimes even more rapidly than in numbers.
Related:
Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 
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