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“I have no whit of sympathy for Gaddafi, any more than I did for Miloševič when we were bombing Belgrade, for Saddam Hussein when the Americans were putting Iraq to fire and the sword […] But I am categorically opposed to the principal brigands of the contemporary world in concert pulling the confidence trick on us, with the quavering voices of their media ideologues, of ‘morality’ and ‘democracy’, in order to go and crush remote, weak countries, and conduct their interminable wars, and profit from these circumstances to establish themselves there, plunder the local resources, and set up permanent military bases.”

Alain Badiou

#communism #communist #marxism #cultural revolution #lenin #maoism #philosophy #leninism #maoist #marxist leninism

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“A great man springs from the mass and is carried by circumstances: the mass of women is at the fringes of history, and for each of them, circumstances are an obstacle and not a springboard. To change the face of the world, one has first to be firmly anchored to it; but women firmly rooted in society are those subjugated by it; unless they are designated for action by divine right - and in this case they are shown to be as capable as men - the ambitious woman and the heroine are strange monsters. Only since women have begun to feel at home on this earth has a Rosa Luxemburg or a Mme Curie emerged. They brilliantly demonstrate that it is not women's inferiority that has determined their historical insignificance: it is their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority.”

Simone De Beauvoir

#communism #communist #marxism #cultural revolution #lenin #maoism #philosophy #feminism #feminist #theory #leninism #marxist leninism #maoist

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he does

i bring free food and a great pair of tits to my relationship

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“It is right to rebel”

Mao Zedong

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“More than other writers, Marx wrote in the conjuncture […] it was certainly incompatible with stable conclusions: Marx is the philosopher of eternal new beginnings, leaving behind him many uncompleted drafts and projects. The content of his thought is not separable from his shifts of position. That is why, in studying him, one cannot abstractly reconstruct his system. One has to retrace his development, with its breaks and bifurcations.”

Balibar, The Philosophy of Marx

#communism #communist #marxism #althusser #dialectics #philosophy #revolution #marxism leninism #lenin #Marx #marxist #theory

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This quote from Guattari goes hard. It’s from “To Have Done with the Massacre of the Body”

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"The sciences we are familiar with have been installed in a number of great 'continents'. Before Marx, two such continents had been opened up to scientific knowledge: the continent of Mathematics and the continent of Physics. The first by the Greeks (Thales), the second by Galileo. Marx opened up a third continent to scientific knowledge: the continent of History." - Louis Althusser, "Philosophy as a Revolutionary Weapon" in Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays (1968) as translated by Ben Brewster (Monthly Review Press: 1971), p. 4

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"We must carry this through to its conclusion and say that this overdetermination does not just refer to apparently unique and aberrant historical situations (Germany, for example), but is universal; the economic dialectic is never active in the pure state; in History, these instances, the superstructures, etc. – are never seen to step respectfully aside when their work is done or, when the Time comes, as his pure phenomena, to scatter before His Majesty the Economy as he strides along the royal road of the Dialectic. From the first moment to the last, the lonely hour of the ‘last instance’ never comes"

Althusser, For Marx

#althusser #philosophy #marxism #dialectics #marxist #communist #communism

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Carl Dix on why there’s no such thing as “human nature” (Dec. 1992)

“Upon making revolution and getting beyond this dog-eat-dog society, that we’ll be able to bring forward new kinds of qualities in human beings…”

These qualities and relations exist even now, in embryo. Even under capitalism, people are capable of tremendous sacrifice, even putting their lives on the line, in the struggle against injustice. Imagine all of this unleashed under a new socialist system, aiming for a communist world!

Full interview with Carl Dix from 1992: https://youtu.be/-XsvYph2kLU

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“For when you reduce the Cultural Revolution to this type of episode, this is the stuff of the black legend, a reactionary and ridiculous legend. You are like Dumas fils, who saw nothing in the Paris Commune but petroleuses [arsonist women] in rags. Why not mention, among a thousand other truly astonishing episodes, the case of the port of Shanghai, paralysed by previous struggles, which got set running again when it was taken over by an absolutely novel, practical alliance between the students and workers?”

Alain Badiou

#maoism #cultural revolution #alain badiou #karl marx #marxism #lenin #marxism leninism #mlm pride #revolution #communism #communist

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May 6 1972 - Riot cops assault a fortified 60-meter high tower that was built by protesters in the flight path of the main runway of Narita airport near Tokyo, making it impossible for any planes to land or take off. Protesters fought against the development, and later expansion, of Narita airport for decades. [video]

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Sneak peak of the Hardcore Pollution tour zine that took me 4 years to finish doing layout for….. I will have copies with me on tour with Rule of Thirds and at New York’s Alright fest. Photos taken by me and Rhys on tour with Kromosom and Isterismo in 2011. Almost 40 pages of photos including shots of ISTERISMO, KROMOSOM, REALITY CRISIS, FOLKEIIS, NEMESIS, FORWARD, AI, ATTACK SS, SYSTEM FUCKER, ZYANOSE, GAUZE, END OF POLLUTION, DISTURD, FORWARD, D-CLONE, SKIZOPHRENIA, NIGHTMARE, AVFALL, FRAMTID, LIFE, FEROCIOUS X, and moooooooooooooore….. :)  Buy one from me on tour. 

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Otoboke Beaver. Japanese punk at its finest.