Although they are desperate to reach their loved ones just a stone’s throw away, the villagers are denied access. What has happened here must not be seen.
“In a way, underdevelopment is a paradox. Many parts of the world that are naturally rich are actually poor and parts that are not so well off in wealth of soil and sun-soil are enjoying the highest standards of living. When the capitalists from the developed parts of the world try to explain this paradox, they often make it sound as though there is something “God-given” about the situation. One bourgeois economist, in a book on development, accepted that the comparative statistics of the world today show a gap that is much larger than it was before. By his own admission, the gap between the developed and underdeveloped countries has increased by at least 15 to 20 times over the last 150 years. However, the bourgeois economist in question does not give a historical explanation, nor does he consider that there is a relationship of exploitation which allowed capitalist parasites to grow fat and impoverished the dependencies. Instead he puts forward a biblical explanation!”
― How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
― How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
“Love, that moves the sun and the other stars”
― Paradise
― Paradise
“After all, if there is no class stratification in a society, it follows that there is no state, because the state arose as an instrument to be used by a particular class to control the rest of society in its own interests.”
― How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
― How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
“How can I keep silent? How can I stay quiet?
My friend, whom I loved, has turned to clay,
my friend Enkidu, whom I loved has turned to clay.
Shall I not be like him, and also lie down,
never to rise again, through all eternity?”
― The Epic of Gilgamesh
My friend, whom I loved, has turned to clay,
my friend Enkidu, whom I loved has turned to clay.
Shall I not be like him, and also lie down,
never to rise again, through all eternity?”
― The Epic of Gilgamesh
“Hold my hand in yours, and we will not fear what hands like ours can do.”
― The Epic of Gilgamesh
― The Epic of Gilgamesh
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