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Serenity is merely a kind of armistice between irreconcilable impulses.

Pierre Klossowski, 'Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle' (via aidsnegligee)

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At some stage early in every Marxist textbook of political economy it is stressed that “capital” is not a thing, but a social relation, and an antagonistic social relation at that. But frequently, after this proclamation is made, the accumulation of capital is substantively treated as the accumulation of things, of machinery, buildings, raw materials, and so forth that are usually grouped under the rubric “constant capital”. This is fundamentally incorrect from a Marxist point of view: capital accumulation must be understood as the reproduction of capitalist social relations on an ever-expanding scale through the conversion of surplus value into new constant and variable capital.

Erik Olin Wright, Class, Crisis and the State, Verso, London, 1979, p. 113 (via leninology)

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Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Selected Letters (via acherive)

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When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs that are in me and what do I know of yours?

Franz Kafka, in a letter to Oskar Pollak dated November 8, 1903 (via bhagyawati)why  (via caffeineandhope)

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"Gender is misogyny"

hello eurocentric ass-hole 

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[tw: cops] Demonstration for refugee rights and the Rote Flora autonomous centre, Hamburg, Dec. 21

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[tw: cops, violence] Demonstration for refugee rights and the Rote Flora autonomous centre, Hamburg, Dec. 21

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Schanze Demo 21.12.2013 by woerpel on Flickr.

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srsly ukip seem to deploy their own utter shittness as a weapon. 

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11. & 19. ?

11. beyond the ever ephemeral "fascism"? UKIP's euro-skeptic nationalism makes my skin crawl because not only are they on the loosing side of history (even within the Bourgeois) they know it and revel in it like pigs in shit. 

19. The crisis of social reproduction - and i feel pretty powerless; that is, of-course, the point though. 

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If, then, the capitalistic employment of machinery, on the one hand, supplies new and powerful motives to an excessive lengthening of the working-day, and radically changes, as well the methods of labour, as also the character of the social working organism, in such a manner as to break down all opposition to this tendency, on the other hand it produces, partly by opening out to the capitalist new strata of the working-class, previously inaccessible to him, partly by setting free the labourers it supplants, a surplus working population, which is compelled to submit to the dictation of capital. Hence that remarkable phenomenon in the history of modern industry, that machinery sweeps away every moral and natural restriction on the length of the working-day. Hence, too, the economic paradox, that the most powerful instrument for shortening labour-time, becomes the most unfailing means for placing every moment of the labourer’s time and that of his family, at the disposal of the capitalist for the purpose of expanding the value of his capital.

Marx (via pointofproduction)

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I've been off Tumblr for ages ask me some "Political Questions!"

1: What ideology or ism would you describe yourself as?

2: Why do you subscribe to that ideology? What made you choose it?

3: Have you always been a [x]ist?

4: If there was an election tomorrow, who would you vote for?

5: If you could change one thing about society, what would it be?

6: Ever been on a protest march?

7: Are you a member of a political party/group?

8: Favourite political book?

9: Favourite political author?

10: How would you fix the economic crisis?

11: Least favourite ideology

12: What's your view on human nature?

13: On the state?

14: On capitalism and the free market?

15: What will society look like in the future?

16: What should society look like in the future?

17: A politician/leader/other political vector you admire.

18: How old should someone be before they're allowed to vote?

19: What's a prominent political issue in your country at the minute? How do you feel about it?

20: If you were in power for the day, what would you do?

21: Is liberal democracy (or whatever you'd call our current system) the best model for government?

22: Your favourite news source?

23: A political tumblr you'd recommend?

24: How do you feel about your country's foreign policy?

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'Devil Girl From Mars' - 1954 film poster

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