Alex Turrall
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Education promoter and independent researcher. Essays for @LiberatedTexts and @Ebb_Magazine
Joined August 2010
It's here! And you can find my essay on zionist propaganda in British education just after Mahmoud Darwish (a sentence I didn't think I'd say). By @Ebb_Magazine and for Palestine 🔻🇵🇸
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The child's school day is structured exactly like an adults work day. 8 hour day, 15 minute break at 10.30 and, 45 minutes for lunch. In the class they must remain focused, still, and "productive" for nothing in particular outside of arbitrary exams and "age range" goals.
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"Is it not violent for a child to go to bed hungry in the richest country in the world? I think that is violent. But that type of violence is so institutionalized that it becomes a part of our way of life. Not only do we accept poverty, we even find it normal. " - Kwame Ture.
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Whiteness is a social relation based on property. When white people defend private property they are defending whiteness. The violence of capitalism is the violence of whiteness.
omfg white people are lining up to defend the south philly target! i’m dead
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Liberals want people to vote for Biden as "harm reduction" so they can go back to pretending Trump is the only thing wrong with America.
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Biden in 1997 saying that the only thing that could provoke a "vigorous and hostile" Russian response would be if NATO expanded as far as the Baltic states
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“I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion. The famine was their own fault for breeding like rabbits.”. - Winston Churchill.
"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." -- Winston Churchill.
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"Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate." - Edward Said.
.@POTUS: “Every other nation you can define by their ethnicity, their geography, their religion, except America. America was born out of an idea.”
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Engels on the deal the rich make with the poor:. “If I spend this much upon benevolent institutions, I thereby purchase the right not to be troubled any further, and you are bound thereby to stay in your dusky holes and not to irritate my tender nerves by exposing your misery.”.
Jeff Bezos, the richest person in the world, just donated $98.5 million to help the homeless by @AngelAuYeung
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What if we understood "fidgeting", "doodling", "tapping", and "daydreaming" in the classroom as children's mental and physical rejection of the alienating process of schooling?.
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It so wild this scene literally admits that communism gets all the answers right through collective and mutual cooperation yet the conclusion is somehow that its a bad thing and should be ridiculed.
WHAT THE HELL
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A man carrying his child's body parts in bags, a child blown to pieces and hanging from a wall, starving humans mown down as they get food aid, a person tied down and flattened by a tank. I dread to think what we haven't seen. There is no language to adequately describe this evil.
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Capitalism is such a brainworm that we don’t even think about how different life would be if we weren’t constantly being sold stuff. Imagine if we had art instead of adverts.
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You literally helped murder Fred Hampton.
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Engels on the deal the rich make with the poor:. “If I spend this much upon benevolent institutions, I thereby purchase the right not to be troubled any further, and you are bound thereby to stay in your dusky holes and not to irritate my tender nerves by exposing your misery.”.
Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos donated $2 billion to charity last year, more than anyone else in the world
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The report by South Africa is astonishing in its scope and detail. It contains a litany of atrocities but these 7 pages on intent show the widespread depravity of zionism. The Prime Minister, President, 7 Ministers, and 5 senior military figures. And these just public statements
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Damning leak of an active cover up campaign in the Netherlands
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"The life of a single human being is worth more than all the property of the richest man on earth.". - Che Guevara.
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The liberal wing of the American ruling class executed one of the most effective counter insurgencies in modern history. Let us learn from it.
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"This is not Europe gone mad; this is not aberration nor insanity; this is Europe. This seeming terrible is the true soul of white culture” - W.E.B. Du Bois.
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Based on these arbritrary assessments, Children are categorised and segregated along multiple intersections (ableism, classism, sexism, and racism). This marks them as capable or not, productive or not.
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CIA chief Duane Clarridge explains how the crimes of Pinochet were "worth it" and that the US will overthrow democratically elected governments whenever it wants. When told that's a violation of foreign populations, his reply is clear: "well that's just tough"
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They looked down the scope, saw a press uniform, calculated the distance and wind, and executed him.
Israel has murdered another Palestinian journalist. Ahmad Fotaima lost his life in an Israeli sniper attack.
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“This is not Europe gone mad; this is not aberration nor insanity; this is Europe. This seeming terrible is the true soul of white culture” - W.E.B. Du Bois.
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Amnesty’s founder was an FBI and CIA informant who was involved in the murder of Fred Hampton.
👀 Anyone 👀 committing 👀 human rights 👀abuses, 👀 we’re 👀 watching 👀 you. 👀.
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"The oppressor makes his violence part of the functioning society. But the violence of the oppressed becomes disruptive. because it is disruptive it's easy to recognize, and therefore it becomes the target of all those who in fact do not want to change the society" - Kwame Ture.
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Imagine if these had been taken in Cuba or the DPRK? They would be called concentration camps and used as a pretext for war. fact is we have never seen such photos of anywhere like this apart from in America or in its prisoner of war camps all over the world.
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Like adult work, children are unlikely to apply the abstract knowledge learnt in school to daily life and are basically inhibited from applying the creativeness of non-school life to the school environment.
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Cuba has no vaccine mandate yet has the greatest vaccine coverage. The idea that mandates are the common sense answer to getting better vaccine coverage completely obscures the state's role in cutting healthcare services and places responsibility on rightly sceptical individuals.
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This is not the first genocide in history, but it is the first in which the perpetrators have documented on film their complete nonchalance and disregard for their victims. History will never forget nor forgive. Palestinian resistance will be vindicated as the heroic stand it is.
Gaza |. Israeli soldiers mocking that they blew up civilian houses. Not funny. Disgusting. To the Hague.
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These scenes, of which there are numerous examples, of zionist settlers frantically running to takeover an Arab house have to be one of the clearest demonstrations of how israel is the sickest and cruelest society on Earth, and one of the most depraved in history.
A microcosmic glimpse of how european invaders colonised Arabian Palestine; massacring, pillaging and looting. #Dismantle_israel_Now
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When researching El Salvador I found that the gratuitous torture, rape, and extra judicial murders of Salvadorans were taught to the army by both the US and Israeli special forces. In fact, wherever we see heinous CIA operations, we will also find Israeli support. A short🧵.
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Ultimately there is no win here for the west. If its judged as genocide, clearly that implicates every western nation too. If its not then it essentially delegitimises the entire basis of international law. A slam dunk for South Africa's case however you cut it.
Reuters reports that South Africa's government expects the ICJ to issue its judgement on the Israel genocide case this Friday.
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Humanity is not, by nature, selfish. Selfishness and wealth hoarding grew out of private property. It is only logical that, with the destruction of private property, comes selflessness and community care.
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Angela Davis is neither stupid nor does she not understand what radicalism is or means. This is conscious counterinsurgency in defence of a genocidal regime.
Angela Davis: Electing Harris will open space for more radical struggles
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When Somalian leaders met to resolve a peace agreement with the UN, the US bombed the meeting killing over 50 people. The US special forces proceeded to rain hell upon residential zones. Then they made a movie depicting themselves as heroes.
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Also an interesting side point, when told by the Russians that they may have to look to China as an alternative if NATO keeps expanding, Biden joked with them by saying "good luck". How things have changed.
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“in its blind unrestrainable passion, its were-wolf hunger for surplus-labour, capital oversteps not only the moral, but even the merely physical maximum bounds of the working-day. It usurps the time for growth, development, and healthy maintenance of the body.”. - Marx.
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Some context, the UK has ordered around 500mil vaccines (7 times more than it needs) and has donated zero. Cuba has already done more to help poorer nations than every so called civilised nation combined. That's the difference between communism and capitalism.
The first of 12 million Cuban vaccines arrive in Venezuela. While US sanctions suffocate the people, the solidarity of the @ALBATCP is the future #Abdala
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Bourdain's criticism of Kissinger falls within the reasonable limits of critique of Empire. So long as its focused on individuals rather than the system it's basically alright. He considered bombing Libya and Syria a charitable move, thats far more revealing of his worldview.
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Leslie Feinberg describing how, before there was a pride flag, the Gay Liberation Front flew the North Vietnamese flag
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Westerners think they’re completely immune to propaganda which only makes them more susceptible to it and it’s kinda terrifying.
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The Israel lobby only has "influence" to the extent that it serves western (primarily US) strategic goals. It does not control western powers, in fact it is wholly reliant on them militarily. The tail does not wag the dog. This is approaching elders of zion nonsense.
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Just found out that in 1986, Thomas Sankara sent 600 children to Cuba where they were given vocational training in things like medicine, agronomy, industrial welding, and geology
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"By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?” - Walter Rodney.
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Nice quick answer to "If you hate capitalism so much, move to Venezuela"
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Marxists for 20 years: US want regime change and are deiberately sabotaging Venezuela to divide them to make this possible . People until now: lol stfu up tankie you fucking tankie boy tankie. People now:.
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Not taking away from this heroic moment at all, but it's interesting that academics who talk about the right of Palestinians to resist only share this type of resistance and never share the numerous examples of Merkavas being wiped out or IOF soldiers getting ethered. Why?.
A young man in the West Bank managed to down an Israeli spying drone with a rock.
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American’s talk like they didn’t wipe out 30% of the Korean population.
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It's so wild seeing people like "how ironic!" and not consider how the lies we here about Israel as a democracy are told by the same people who call the DPRK a dictatorship.
North Korea slams Israel for turning Gaza into "huge human slaughterhouse," "massacring children"
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In 2007, Leslie Feinberg was invited by ASWAT (Palestinian Gay Women) to talk in Haifa. Feinberg opened in Arabic:. I know where I stand: in historic Palestine. So my first words must be in Arabic. Thank you for inviting me here. It is the largest honor in my life. I salute Aswat
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So within 24 hours, Biden is already priming a renewed offensive in Venezuela and Iraq. Back to normal.
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This energy, this exposure, for anything but a cancelled TV show. Please, a singular crumb of self awareness.
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“The United States is a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.” - Julius Nyerere.
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"When Black people seriously organize and take up arms to fight for our liberation, there will be a lot of white people who will drop dead from no other reason than their own guilt and fear" - Assata Shakur's words seem prescient.
Media coverage | Israeli Broadcasting Corporation: The Forum of Directors of Psychiatric Hospitals calls on the Israeli state's comptroller to declare a state of emergency, noting an increase in the number of mental illnesses and suicides among Israelis settlers and soldiers.
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"the oppressor makes his violence a part of the functioning society. But the violence of the oppressed becomes disruptive. because it is disruptive it is very easy to recognize, and therefore it becomes the target of all those who in fact do not want to change the society.".
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Getting lots of foucault Blowback which is amusing cos I wrote this in a roll neck like foucault but, on a serious note, why do we defer to his disciplinary regime rather than say, Althusser's Marxist social reproduction? Foucault has such a stranglehold on _the canon_.
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So sick of people who say "socialiats are so pessimistic" because they point out how terrible things are. Socialists are the only people who actually believe that change is possible, they are profoundly optimistic about humans and their capacity to overturn exploitative systems.
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Isn't it funny that the people who say violence is never the solution are also the ones who support military intervention abroad at every opportunity. Let's talk about the contradictions
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One of the most common, enduring, and damaging myths about western imperialism is that it is a bumbling empire. It profoundly obscures the calculated depravity and violent essence of imperialism.
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I'm not sure why this needs to be stated but *America is war*. It has never not been at war. It came into existence through war, genocide, and enslavement and continues to exist on this basis. America is defined by war.
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The fact of conversion completely undermines any notion of "indigeneity" and "right of return". How can you return to a totally foreign land? You cannot convert to an ethnicity, these motherfuckers are insane fascists.
Mazal tov!!!. Another IDF soldier completed her conversion to Judaism
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"I'm glad we helped out in Libya. That was a cool thing." - Bourdain.
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Jeff Bezos makes $275mil A DAY.
Jeff Bezos battles homelessness by giving $98 million to charities
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I still can’t believe this isn’t a parody.
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"There is no such thing as an illegitimate child. A child who is born is legitimate." - Fidel Castro.
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Socialism is about reparations, it's about workers control of production, its about building community. Socialism is the total transformation of society. It is not and never has been about a welfare state built on imperialism. That was never "left" to begin with.
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Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages .A. Davis
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China and Cuba: offering medical assistance and doctors to people all over the world. America:.
Trump tried to poach German scientists working on a cure for coronavirus and offered cash so the vaccine would be exclusive to the USA
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“This is not Europe gone mad; this is not aberration nor insanity; this is Europe. This seeming terrible is the true soul of white culture”. W.E.B. Du Bois.
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Director of Human Rights Watch relishes the possibility of famine and starvation in Venezuela as a result of an economy sabotaged and destroyed by American Imperialism.
The only silver lining in Venezuela's increasingly worthless currency (due to Pres Maduro's corrupt autocracy) is how little the devastated economy has to sell. #AutocratsGetItDone!
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"The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy". - Albert Einstein.
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“The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil.”. - Albert Einstein.
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." . Albert Einstein
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Marxism is cutting off your hair and the more hair you cut off the more marxister you are.
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Which is doubly frustrating cos foucault clearly just plagiarised althusser and gramsci anyway and stripped them of revolutionary agency etc.
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"Jail is big business. You can feed a whole town off one jail. This jail is in the middle of the town that feeds everybody. Everybody works here, this is the main income; so if there was no criminals nobody would work." - Tupac.
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“in its blind unrestrainable passion, its were-wolf hunger for surplus-labour, capital oversteps not only the moral, but even the merely physical maximum bounds of the working-day. It usurps the time for growth, development, and healthy maintenance of the body.”. - Marx.
BREAKING NEWS: Say goodbye to comfort breaks! New downward-tilting toilets are designed to become unbearable to sit on after five minutes. They say the main benefit is to employees in improved employee productivity.
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Shocking that a key architect of mass incarceration and his younger apprentice have done *exactly* what they've always said they wanted to do.
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Mere days ago, smiling next to the genocidaire in chief
Today, the United States is aiding and abetting the destruction of the Palestinian people.
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As soon as you accept that Sanders is an imperialist and not the socialist candidate you have projected your idealistic fantasies onto everything becomes much easier to understand. It then becomes much clear how to start resisting and building.
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As Thomas Sankara tells us, "imperialism is the arsonist setting fire to our forests and our savannas", but now its setting fire to the ocean too. Capitalism is a synonym for annihilation.
Holy shit an underwater gas line burst at an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, and part of the ocean caught fire.
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Today I am thinking about this beautiful video of a Palestinian teacher greeting her class. I am thinking about the love I see here and how it is foundational to the school day. How such a concept is utterly dystopian for the western world.
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Since we're talking about reparations
The Chinese Communist Party don't like the truth and always respond aggressively. They should pay the West reparations for this global disaster.
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Exclusive: Amazon is destroying millions of items of unsold stock in one of its UK warehouses every year, an ITV News investigation has uncovered. Many of the products - including smart TVs and laptops - are often new and unused. #AmazonWaste
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Until academics collectively start engaging with working people outside the academy (or the non-academic staff in the institutions themselves), they cannot expect to make long term sustainable change to their own precarious work positions.
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"The idea that men in colonized societies or societies beyond the borders of the civilized West, oppressed women was to be used, in the rhetoric of colonialism, to render morally justifiable its project of undermining or eradicating the cultures of colonized peoples - Leila Ahmed.
Tolerance of systemic violence against women can’t be justified in the name of anti-imperialism, helping other human beings isn’t “a savior complex,” and leaving the most powerless & desperate people to fend for themselves in the hour of their agony isn’t political sophistication.
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What is so frustrating about *some* self proclaimed Marxists is when they say "Well X person said it therefore I am correct". That is not an analysis, that is a cult of personality and is in total contradiction to the marxist method of investigation.
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It's so surreal watching the Bolivian military roll into towns with tanks, the police cutting the indigenous flag off their uniforms, and then being told by every news outlet that it "isn't a coup". The distortion of reality can make us feel like we're going mad but don't let it.
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Gramsci on the colonies:. "For several years we Europeans have lived at the expense of the death of the coloured peoples: unconscious vampires that we are, we have fed off their innocent blood. "
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We are once again seeing a historical pattern emerge. In the midst of the most heinous and brutal oppression, education and community with children has always flourished. And it has also always presaged epochal transformations of power.
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Marx on "tax the rich":. "Vulgar socialism has taken over from the bourgeois economists the consideration and treatment of distribution as independent of the mode of production and hence the presentation of socialism as turning principally on distribution".
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