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- The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand: Capitalism As a State...
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Capitalism was founded on an act of robbery as massive as feudalism. It has been sustained to the present by continual state intervention to protect its system of privilege, without which its survival is unimaginable.
The current system of concentrated capital ownership and large-scale corporate organization is the direct beneficiary of that original structure of power and property ownership, which has perpetuated itself over the centuries.
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- 10 Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes The Government Wants You To Forget
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Here are a few quotes that should not only be read, but absorbed by all people around the world.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death
We must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced the murderers
- Thinking Strategically About Free Speech And Violence
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What is the best way to actually undermine the political prospects of racist movements?
Igniting a “doxxing war†and legitimizing/encouraging the tactic of pressuring employers to fire people for non-work-related reasons not only has risks such as mistaken identity, but contradicts a fundamental principle of the left approach to labor rights: what you do in your time off the job should be no business of your employer.
What if, in fact, violent besiegings do contribute to an escalating cycle of violence? What if, here and now, they do serve as a formidable recruiting tool? I hope we’re certain that this is not the case, because if we’re wrong the consequences could be disastrous.
- Rat Park versus The New York Times
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If drugs are not the cause of addiction, what is?
The most basic finding is that people use addictions of all sorts, not just addictions to drugs, to adapt to the alienation or dislocation that is built into the modern age. Dislocation and alienation have increased over the centuries and are most prevalent in the countries of that are most closely tied into the neoliberal capitalist agenda.