February 2012
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logically speaking shouldn't spiderman wear...
how does peter afford/make this rubber, raised urethane look anyway?
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Last Spanish Civil War Scot Thomas Watters dies . →
marxandsparks:
The last surviving Scot who volunteered to fight in the Spanish Civil War has died at the age of 99.
RIP Comrade.
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Hanna: “You’ve got two more birthday thingies on Facebook but I don’t know who these kids are.”
Me: “Who are they from?”
Hanna: “Uhlon and Harmon Jenkins.”
Me: “Uhlon? Don’t know who that is, how do you spell it?”
Hanna: “A L A N”
Me: “….Alan?”
Hanna: “Oh.”
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an explanation of capitalism
“Capitalism is a system which reproduces itself, at the end of any defined period it needs to have the correct amount of or ratio of resources to perform the process of capitalism again, basically there needs to be resources (including labour) available and enough markets available for the businesses to profit. In the process of creating these conditions it creates a number of massive...
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on america and central/south america
“You can’t tell a kid, “a-ha, you’re rubbish at building sandcastles!” if you come kick it down, break his hands, kill his friends and blind him as soon as he starts.”
lloydgeorge asked: Just Wiki'd Claude Vorilhon. why.
“It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would...”
– Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. “The Other America.” Grosse Pointe High School, March 14, 1968. (via rethinksocialism)
“The true function of constitutionalism was to protect the bourgeoisie from the...”
– L.C.B. Seaman, From Vienna to Versailles [1955] (via rethinksocialism)
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the yugoslavian economy of the 50s/60s is very...
methinks ill have to do more research
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http://kylemcqueen.tumblr.com/post/17001274059/clau... →
Free trade as it exists is just another front for global capital to find new markets; it’s a bad thing, and fair trade is much more preferable. Earmarks are a distraction and barely contribute to the debt, they’re like 1% of it, and half the time they’re good things like supporting local parks and museums and things like that. I honestly don’t know too much about block...
He’s better than Paul because he’s not totally insane (ie he doesn’t want to explode the Federal Reserve and plant the Confederate Flag on its ashes) but he still supports a bunch of dumb regressive policies like the free market, thinks tort reform will solve health care, think it’s a good idea to privatize Social Security, and thinks the budget deficit is the central issue...
“Modern industry has converted the little workshop of the patriarchal master into...”
– Karl Marx (via matthewernest)
Rethink Socialism: The Myth of State Communism or... →
rethinksocialism:
State communism. I’ve heard this term thrown around quite a lot.
What is state communism? Contrary to popular belief, state communism is a myth. This is word conjured by the bourgeoisie to be used as a substitute for Leninism, Stalinism, and Maoism. State communism is intrinsically a…