Socialist revolutions can only be democratic ones. It is the ruling class which is the undemocratic minority.
—Terry Eagleton, Why Marx Was Right
Capitalism cannot survive without a working class, while the working class can flourish a lot more freely without capitalism.
—Terry Eagleton, Why Marx Was Right
Here’s a hilarious Helen Keller joke!
Do you know what no one saw or heard coming?
Helen Keller’s radical socialist activism for the rights of the poor, women, the disabled. And so people ignored and belittled her politics. They argued a deaf, blind person could not know what she was talking about. And so they reduced her to the safe story of a young girl who overcame disability, and nothing else.
Wait I mean haha she was blind! How funny.
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[P]eople who pronounce themselves in favour of the method of legislative reform in place and in contradistinction to the conquest of political power and social revolution, do not really choose a more tranquil, calmer and slower road to the same goal, but a different goal. Instead of taking a stand for the establishment of a new society they take a stand for surface modifications of the old society. If we follow the political conceptions of revisionism, we arrive at the same conclusion that is reached when we follow the economic theories of revisionism. Our program becomes not the realisation of socialism, but the reform of capitalism; not the suppression of the wage labour system but the diminution of exploitation, that is, the suppression of the abuses of capitalism instead of suppression of capitalism itself.
—Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution (1900)
(Source: onetrack-heart, via intelligence-is-sexier)
DAAAAAAAAAMN JOHN CHO.
oh my god
ZING!
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[Marx] was aware that the ideas which really grip men and women arise through their routine practice, not through the discourse of philosophers or debating societies. If you want to see what men and women really believe, look at what they do, not at what they say.
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Terry Eagleton, Why Marx Was Right
A slave knows he is a slave, but knowing why he is a slave is the first step towards not being one.
—Terry Eagleton, Why Marx Was Right
“I’ve heard about the cybermen since I was in my cradle. I AM NOT AFRAID OF YOU!”
I can’t have been the only one who thought this, can I?
I know he looked and sounded a bit like Craig, that is so stormy (or one of his decedents)
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Marxist theory itself is not just a commentary on the world, but an instrument for changing it.
—Terry Eagleton, Why Marx Was Right
