January 2011
11 posts
“Sometimes while I ride the subway I try to look at each person and imagine what...”
– Dean Spade. For Lovers and Fighters. http://www.makezine.enoughenough.org/newpoly2.html (via avry)
“Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest...”
– Audre Lorde
To all the multiculturalists (in my life), read up.
(via bollywoodsuperstar)
Theory Reaches Root
“Theory is capable of gripping the masses as soon as it demonstrates ad hominem, and it demonstrates ad hominem as soon as it becomes radical. To be radical is to grasp things by the root. But the root for humans is humanity itself.”- karl marx
“In the social production of their existence, men inevitably enter into definite relations, which are independent of their will, namely relations of production appropriate to a given stage in the development of their material forces of production. The totality of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society, the real foundation, on which arises a legal and...
“[T]he temporal anomaly within nationalism—veering between nostalgia for the past...”
– Anne McClintock - Imperial Leather, 1995 (via sexartandpolitics)
“What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive,...”
– Excerpt from “Where Do We Go From Here?”, Martin Luther King Jr., 1967 (via bookandbolo)
The Marxist Hypothesis →
mxmlsm:
“If Marx is mistaken for an affirmer and promulgator of “communism” as opposed to what he actually was, its most incisive critic (from within), we risk forgetting the most important if fragile achievement of history: the consciousness of potential in capital. As Marx wrote early on, in an 1843 letter to Arnold Ruge that called for the “ruthless criticism of everything existing,”...
“But a deeper reason for coolness between the countries is this: Haiti is black,...”
– Frederick Douglass, Lecture on Haiti (January 2, 1893)
kiriamaya:
In the early eighties, there was a report, written for the US Government, called Technology on the Social and Ethical Aspects of Transsexual Surgery. This report argued that transition-related treatments were medically unnecessary. As a result, consideration of federal and state aid for trans people was dropped, and private insurance companies quickly followed suit, disingenuously...
“On capacity, I think Ng’ethe Meina of Social Justice Leadership said it best in...”
– Morgan Bassichis (via theredtree)
“The fact that Native societies were egalitarian 500 years ago is not stopping...”
– Andrea Smith, Indigenous feminism without apology (via readnfight)