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Marxism teaches that exploitation and degradation somehow produce resistance and revolution. It's been hard to say why. What I've learned from women's experience with sexuality is that exploitation and degradation produce grateful complicity in exchange for survival. They produce self-loathing to the point of extinction of self, and it is respect for self that makes resistance conceivable.


Catharine A. MacKinnon


#marxism #rape #resistance #revolution #trauma

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.


Martin Luther King Jr.


#democracy #freedom #marxism #radicalism #rebellion

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.


Terry Eagleton


#capitalism #inevitability #inspirational #marxism #resistance

In a time in which Communist regimes have been rightfully discredited and yet alternatives to neoliberal capitalist societies are unwisely dismissed, I defend the fundamental claim of Marxist theory: there must be countervailing forces that defend people's needs against the brutality of profit driven capitalism.


Cornel West


#marxism #capitalism

Fear of the mob is a superstitious fear. It is based on the idea that there is some mysterious, fundamental difference between rich and poor, as though they were two different races, like Negroes and white men. But in reality there is no such difference. The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else, and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit. Change places, and handy dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief? Everyone who has mixed on equal terms with the poor knows this quite well. But the trouble is that intelligent, cultivated people, the very people who might be expected to have liberal opinions, never do mix with the poor. For what do the majority of educated people know about poverty?


George Orwell


#communism #equality #marxism #orwell #poverty

The intentions of the cybernetic totalist tribe are good. They are simply following a path that was blazed in earlier times by well-meaning Freudians and Marxists - and I don't mean that in a pejorative way. I'm thinking of the earliest incarnations of Marxism, for instance, before Stalinism and Maoism killed millions. Movements associated with Freud and Marx both claimed foundations in rationality and the scientific understanding of the world. Both perceived themselves to be at war with the weird, manipulative fantasies of religions. And yet both invented their own fantasies that were just as weird. The same thing is happening again. A self-proclaimed materialist movement that attempts to base itself on science starts to look like a religion rather quickly. It soon presents its own eschatology and its own revelations about what is really going on - portentous events that no one but the initiated can appreciate. The Singularity and the noosphere, the idea that a collective consciousness emerges from all the users on the web, echo Marxist social determinism and Freud's calculus of perversions. We rush ahead of skeptical, scientific inquiry at our peril, just like the Marxists and Freudians.


Jaron Lanier


#freud #freudians #internet #marx #marxism

The problem with Marxism is the proletariat isn’t going to rise up against capitalism and consumerism. The only time they’ll rise up is during a commercial break to either go to the bathroom or grab more beer.



Jarod Kintz


#beer #capitalism #commercials #communism #consumerism

At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political.


Douglas Sirk


#arose #art #became #course #marxism

Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud.


Rosa Luxemburg


#humanism #marxism #poetry #rosa-luxemburg #beauty

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.


Harold MacMillan


#building #classical #followed #growth #incapable






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