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"Reading about the minute details of how the Vietnamese struggle began with a few dozen people working underground and ended up as a meticulously organised fighting force is awe-inspiring
The transnational origins of the Vietnamese army - with so many of their officers trained under both the CPC and KMT - is fascinating, too" — Feb 18, 2026 05:33AM
"Reading about the minute details of how the Vietnamese struggle began with a few dozen people working underground and ended up as a meticulously organised fighting force is awe-inspiring
The transnational origins of the Vietnamese army - with so many of their officers trained under both the CPC and KMT - is fascinating, too" — Feb 18, 2026 05:33AM
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""Madhyabitta (middle-class), then, was aspiration rather than reality, but aspiration can also be crucially important In the making of historical processes. Nor, it must be added, was the anomaly all that unique. The Indian colonial middle class of literati, aspiring but generally failing to achieve a class status not their own- at times 'substituting' for the missing or dominant class- would have a number of..." — Jan 27, 2025 03:20PM
""Madhyabitta (middle-class), then, was aspiration rather than reality, but aspiration can also be crucially important In the making of historical processes. Nor, it must be added, was the anomaly all that unique. The Indian colonial middle class of literati, aspiring but generally failing to achieve a class status not their own- at times 'substituting' for the missing or dominant class- would have a number of..." — Jan 27, 2025 03:20PM
“In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be...
This is the inter-related structure of reality.”
― Letter from Birmingham Jail: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation: Library Edition
This is the inter-related structure of reality.”
― Letter from Birmingham Jail: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation: Library Edition
“Yet the past is ever with us and all that we are and that we have comes from the past. We are its products and we live immersed in it. Not to understand it and feel it as something living within us is not to understand the present. To combine it with the present and extend it to the future, to break from it where it cannot be so united, to make of all this the pulsating and vibrating material for thought and action—that is life.”
― The Discovery of India
― The Discovery of India
“Enlightenment, understood in the widest sense as the advance of thought, has always aimed at liberating human beings from fear and installing them as masters. Yet the wholly enlightened earth is radiant with triumphant calamity.”
― Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
― Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
“Burn worldly love,
rub the ashes and make ink of it,
make the heart the pen,
the intellect the writer,
write that which has no end or limit.”
― Sri Guru Granth Sahib
rub the ashes and make ink of it,
make the heart the pen,
the intellect the writer,
write that which has no end or limit.”
― Sri Guru Granth Sahib
“Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. And just as they seem to be occupied with revolutionizing themselves and things, creating something that did not exist before, precisely in such epochs of revolutionary crisis they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service, borrowing from them names, battle slogans, and costumes in order to present this new scene in world history in time-honored disguise and borrowed language.”
― The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
― The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
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