September 2011
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“Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of...”
– Bertrand Russell (via socialistscum)
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“Some of this anti-protest posturing is just the all-too-familiar...”
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What’s behind the scorn for the Wall Street protests? - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
As usual, What Greenwald Said.
(via champagnecandy)
There’s also not a little bitterness on the part of professional “progressive” “organizers” who resent the fact that a bunch of...
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“Everything we’d been told for the last decade turned out to be a lie. Markets...”
– David Graeber
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You don't say!
Tastes, Castes, and Culture: The Influence of Society on Preferences
Here we argue that […] the psychological properties of preferences render them susceptible to direct social influences, and that the impact of “society” on preferences is likely to have important economic and social consequences.
Seriously, this is what passes for a ground-breaking and controversial hypothesis...
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The Lynching
His Spirit in smoke ascended to high heaven.
His father, by the cruelest way of pain,
Had bidden him to his bosom once again;
The awful sin remained still unforgiven.
All night a bright and solitary star
(Perchance the one that ever guided him,
Yet gave him up at last to Fate’s wild whim)
Hung pitifully o’er the swinging char.
Day dawned, and soon the mixed crowds came...
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Between the World & Me
And one morning while in the woods I stumbled
suddenly upon the thing,
Stumbled upon it in a grassy clearing guarded by scaly
oaks and elms
And the sooty details of the scene rose, thrusting
themselves between the world and me….
There was a design of white bones slumbering forgottenly
upon a cushion of ashes.
There was a charred stump of a sapling pointing a...
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“By the time I feed my family, I have maybe $400,000 left over,” - Rep. John...”
– Quote For The Day/Andrew Sullivan (via nickbaumann)
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“One of the eternal conflicts out of which life is made up is that between the...”
– Vegelahn v. Guntner, 167 Mass. 92 (1896) (Holmes, J., dissenting)
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“Every progressive social movement must, sooner or later, confront the powerful...”
– Sam Gindin and Leo Panitch
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“The most important contribution to the higher profit margins over the past five...”
– Economists at Goldman Sachs
Wealth redistribution, American style.
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“The United States has the highest poverty rate among developed countries,...”
– American poverty levels hit record high
We’re Number 1!
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“I would very much like to forget Nineleven, and I wish everybody else would too....”
– Michael J. Smith (via stumplane)
