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“Everything is functioning. That is precisely what is terror-inducing, that everything functions, that the functioning propels everything more and more toward further functioning, and that technicity increasingly dislodges
man and uproots him from the earth.”
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man and uproots him from the earth.”
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“But the real danger is that liberal environmentalists and feminists will strengthen the right by lending credibility to reactionary arguments. Adopting the argument that population growth causes global warming endorses the strongest argument the right has against the social and economic changes that are really needed to stop climate change and environmental destruction.”
― Too Many People?: Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis
― Too Many People?: Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis
“A social environment that is conducive to false accusations could lead us to people being falsely accused of falsely accusing others.”
― The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars
― The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars
“Elected officials no longer attempt to win you over, they attempt to rewrite laws and district boundaries so that your vote is irrelevant. Their true constituency is the criminal elite.”
― They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
― They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
“Many today have difficulty understanding how the Puritans could execute people based on something like spectral evidence. Yet modern moral panics are more like witch hunts than one might suppose.”
― The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars
― The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars
Marx's Capital Volumes I, II, III (Study Group - 2020 and beyond)
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We see symptoms of crises all around us, from the immediate "public health" pandemic of COVID19 to repeated "financial" crises to escalating "environm ...more
Marxism
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Reading works by and about Karl Marx/Friedrich Engels.
No Quarter Leftism
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— last activity Jan 14, 2022 11:00AM
Non-sectarian leftism. United Front in perspective, rather than Popular Front. Intended for anarchists, anarcho-syndicalists, trade unionists, left ex ...more
Anarchist & Radical Book Club
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This is a group to read and discuss anarchist practice and theory, by gathering a large body of anarchist literature, non-fiction, and theory, as well ...more
Bangalore bookworms and bibliophiles (BBB)
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A place for book lovers of Bangalore to meet, connect and have conversations (online and real life!) Just discussion about books! By book lovers! No ...more
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