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"This book does not appeal to me at all.
Given up." — May 16, 2017 02:22PM
"This book does not appeal to me at all.
Given up." — May 16, 2017 02:22PM


“Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . .
. . . (quoting an obituary) 'There is no such thing as a natural death. Nothing that ever happens to man is natural, since his presence calls the whole world into question. All men must die, but for every man his death is an accident, and even if he knows it he would sense to it an unjustifiable violation.' Well, you may agree with the words or not, but those are the key spring of The Lord Of The Rings”
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. . . (quoting an obituary) 'There is no such thing as a natural death. Nothing that ever happens to man is natural, since his presence calls the whole world into question. All men must die, but for every man his death is an accident, and even if he knows it he would sense to it an unjustifiable violation.' Well, you may agree with the words or not, but those are the key spring of The Lord Of The Rings”
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“The revolution has to be self-liberation.”
― On Changing the World: Essays in Marxist Political Philosophy, from Karl Marx to Walter Benjamin
― On Changing the World: Essays in Marxist Political Philosophy, from Karl Marx to Walter Benjamin

“Would-be green capitalism is nothing but a publicity stunt, a label for the purpose of selling a commodity, or - in the best of cases - a local initiative equivalent to a drop of water on the arid soil of the capitalist desert.”
― Ecosocialism: A Radical Alternative to Capitalist Catastrophe
― Ecosocialism: A Radical Alternative to Capitalist Catastrophe
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