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Serenity is merely a kind of armistice between irreconcilable impulses.

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

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)

"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.

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

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.

pointofproduction

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)