Muhammed > Recent Status Updates

"capitalists seek totalization, the imposition of their way of organizing
society everywhere. They seek to convert all elements of human life—
both things and relationships into commodities and, in the process, to
convert all human activities into commodity-producing work. [examples...] [T]here is no theoretical limit to capitalist expansion. Capitalist totalization is, therefore, at least potentially, infinite."

'I have come to believe that violence is boyhood socialization. The way we “turn boys into men” is through injury: We sever them from their mothers, research tells us, far too early. We pull them away from their own expressiveness, from their feelings, from sensitivity to others. The very phrase “Be a man” means suck it up and keep going.'

Some very ghoulish stuff

"من السهل على أن أدير ظهري وأغادر العلاقة اذا وجدت فيها ما يرهق"

"This was at age eleven. You just have to have a sense of survival, rather than class consciousness, because they might have an Alsatian dog under the house, and they let it loose on you."

"At the same time, we had to try and come to terms with the fundamental illusion that education would resolve everything."

"Furthermore, we hoped to arrest the Fascist terror in Jordan and reveal the contradictions of Arab society. We were out to strike at the heart of the oppressor."

"How miserable can one become
when one thinks only of oneself and no others."

"Switzerland, the neutral country, has not only detained Arab revolutionaries and released the murderers of Palestinians, but has also closed its eyes to Zionist kidnappers who killed scientists working for my people."

Always annoying when people don't see Switzerland and the like for the imperialists they're...

"Indeed, no Arab leader, however reactionary, would dare to make peace with Dayan or any other Zionist bully in the future unless he were totally suicidal."

That's one thing you got wrong, comrade, for too many Arabs in the gulf who oppress other Arabs (e.g. Kafala) it's quite easy to publicly announce not only their indifference to the Palestinian cause but their support of the Zionist entity.

"[Che's] "adventurism and romanticism" are necessary reminders of the unconquerable power of the human spirit in a world where the fear of America cripples millions, [...] and paralyses professed revolutionaries. [...]. Yet I, a "revolutionary" woman, was living in tranquillity in far away Kuwait when my people needed revolutionaries and heroes of Che's caliber. I decided I must join the revolution."

"Every self-respecting Palestinian had to become a revolutionary."

""Palestine is not politics to me," I declared. "It is a question of life and death, and no one, certainly no Yankee who can't even speak Arabic, can tell me how to act on the issue and how to fight for my country.""

Teaching Yankees their place! If only more people would realize that Palestine is life but so is politics...

"The value of the conquest of Palestine by imperialism and Zionism is that it forced some of us to re-examine the foundation of our society on our own. We discovered that our society was rotten, traditional, unprogressive. Our defeat was indeed our salvation, our means of regeneration and renewal. Now the issue is not restoration, but the construction of..."

"I have underwear older than the Zionist entity" Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa

I don't know if I should keep reading. There is too much freaking "American exceptionalism" and it's getting on my nerves!