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Angel Martinez
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"Reading in Spanish since the English version doesn't come out until 2027 because the author initially wanted to at least hold on the translation of this book in English to make a statement of the West's increasing irrelevance to the growing multipolar world." — Sep 28, 2026 09:28AM
"Reading in Spanish since the English version doesn't come out until 2027 because the author initially wanted to at least hold on the translation of this book in English to make a statement of the West's increasing irrelevance to the growing multipolar world." — Sep 28, 2026 09:28AM
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""800 Creek men had volunteered to help the US army fight the Seminoles in Florida in return for a promise that their families could remain in Alabama, protected by the Fed govt until the men returned. The promise was not kept" (pg 143).
Anti-imperialists would be wise to heed this lesson. Becoming a comprador will not protect you" — Oct 03, 2026 08:51PM
""800 Creek men had volunteered to help the US army fight the Seminoles in Florida in return for a promise that their families could remain in Alabama, protected by the Fed govt until the men returned. The promise was not kept" (pg 143).
Anti-imperialists would be wise to heed this lesson. Becoming a comprador will not protect you" — Oct 03, 2026 08:51PM
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""Nationalism, which Garvey diverted under the slogan of Back to Africa, was an authentic trend, likely to flare up again in periods of crisis and stress. Such a movement might again fall under the leadership of utopian visionaries who would seek to divert it from the struggle against the main enemy, U.S. imperialism, and on to a reactionary separatist path"
(pg 230)" — Sep 28, 2026 07:14AM
""Nationalism, which Garvey diverted under the slogan of Back to Africa, was an authentic trend, likely to flare up again in periods of crisis and stress. Such a movement might again fall under the leadership of utopian visionaries who would seek to divert it from the struggle against the main enemy, U.S. imperialism, and on to a reactionary separatist path"
(pg 230)" — Sep 28, 2026 07:14AM
“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
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“We must eliminate all newspapers; we cannot make a revolution with free press. Newspapers are instruments of the oligarchy.”
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“Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.”
― German Ideology
― German Ideology
“The chief causes of the environmental destruction that faces us today are not biological, or the product of individual human choice. They are social and historical, rooted in the productive relations, technological imperatives, and historically conditioned demographic trends that characterize the dominant social system. Hence, what is ignored or downplayed in most proposals to remedy the environmental crisis is the most critical challenge of all: the need to transform the major social bases of environmental degradation, and not simply to tinker with its minor technical bases. As long as prevailing social relations remain unquestioned, those who are concerned about what is happening are left with few visible avenues for environmental action other than purely personal commitments to recycling and green shopping, socially untenable choices between jobs and the environment, or broad appeals to corporations, political policy-makers, and the scientific establishment--the very interests most responsible for the current ecological mess.”
― The Vulnerable Planet: A Short Economic History of the Environment
― The Vulnerable Planet: A Short Economic History of the Environment
“For as soon as the distribution of labour comes into being, each man has a particular, exclusive sphere of activity, which is forced upon him and from which he cannot escape. He is a hunter, a fisherman, a herdsman, or a critical critic, and must remain so if he does not want to lose his means of livelihood; while in communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic.”
― The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy
― The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy
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