The Thought for the Week Collection


While I wait for Medium to let me post again, here are two of my most recent poems. I’ve uploaded my poetry book draft here too. It’s missing page numbers, a table of contents, and maybe a little dignity. The formatting’s rough. The vibe’s a bit dorky. But it’s alive.
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Excellent warriors are not violent.
Excellent soldiers are not furious.
Excellent conquerors do not engage.
Excellent leaders of people lower themselves.This is called the virtue of no strife.
Laozi, Tao Te Ching, Chapter 68
This is called the use of people’s capacity.
This is called the union with Heaven.
It is the perfection of the ancients.
The division of society into a small, excessively rich class and a large, propertyless class of wage-workers results in a society suffocating from its own super-fuity, while the great majority of its members is scarcely, or even not at all, protected from extreme want. This state of affairs becomes daily more absurd and—more unnecessary. It must be abolished, it can be abolished
Friedrich Engels, Introduction to Wage Labour and Capital: Wages, Price and Profit


The racial question is in essence a class question. Our unity is not one of race; it is the unity of comrades and friends. We should strengthen our unity and wage a common struggle against imperialism. colonialism, and the running dogs, to attain complete and thorough national independence and liberation. —Mao Zedong
The Racial Question Is A Class Question
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