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"It's especially jarring to account for Gorby giving the keys to the Soviet state to anyone who will run against the Party, while ignoring the crumbling of Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe, all in Lenin's name (!) and in the ideal of democracy, while the Americans were flipping every regime they could and fooled the USSR into intervention in Afghanistan and thought it was all an act to let their guard down." — Jul 12, 2026 05:52PM

 
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""And as the water table drops, Palestinian wells are running dry. Palestinians are not allowed to deepen their wells or sink new ones without Israeli permission —- and permission is almost never granted. If they build without permission, as many do, Israeli bulldozers arrive the next day. So Palestinians are forced to buy their own water back from Israel at arbitrarily high prices."" — Mar 14, 2026 09:27AM

 
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Jonas Salk
“Who owns the patent on this vaccine?'
'Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?”
― Jonas Salk

Vladimir Lenin
“Crises of every kind — economic crises more frequently, but not only these — in their turn increase very considerably the tendency towards concentration and monopoly.”
― Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

Karl Marx
“The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save-the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour-your capital. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life-the greater is the store of your estranged being.”
― Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Iain Banks
“You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history”
― Iain Banks

Antonio Gramsci
“Illusion is the most tenacious weed in the collective consciousness; history teaches, but it has no pupils.”
― Antonio Gramsci

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