Tom Blackburn

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Tom’s Bookshelves

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imperialism-and-anti-imperialism‎ (508)
history‎ (444)
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labour-and-radical-history‎ (249)
united-states‎ (237)
marxism‎ (212)
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communism‎ (95)
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work-and-anti-work‎ (18)
india‎ (15)
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Tom is Currently Reading

Tom Blackburn is currently reading

Fidel Castro Reader

by David Deutschmann

bookshelves: communism, imperialism-and-anti-imperialism, latin-america, marxism, currently-reading

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Tom’s Quotes

“The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.”
― C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

tags: french-revolution, haiti, haitian-revolution, san-domingo

51 likes

“People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.”
― James Baldwin

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“When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.”
― C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

tags: historian, history, masses

79 likes

“True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

401 likes

“Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.”
― Bertrand Russell

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