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Nils is Currently Reading

Nils Brandsma is currently reading

The Peasant War in Germany

by Friedrich Engels

bookshelves: history, political-economy, currently-reading

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Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War

by Hito Steyerl

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Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

by Slavoj Žižek

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Nils’s Quotes

“The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.”
― Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle

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“Yet the victory of fascism was made practically unavoidable by the liberals’ obstruction of any reform involving planning, regulation, or control.”
― Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time

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“under any circumstances sociability is the greatest advantage in the struggle for life.”
― Pyotr Kropotkin, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution

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“I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person. I have a lot to learn from other people.”
― Eduardo Galeano

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“For every subtle and complicated question, there is a perfectly simple and straightforward answer, which is wrong. —”
― David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years

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