Its Getting Worse...

quotes from books read, aimed at being useful, rare, not yet digitized. marxist (i.e. true). embossed with foil, fuckyeahdialectics.tumblr.com, There shall be no buying and selling of the earth, nor of the fruits thereof . 

[itsworsethanthat]

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[itsworsethanthat]

Ray Ban Sunglasses Official Charity Event!

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[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 13 August 1977, South London residents and anti-fascists staged running battles with police and National Front members to stop a fascist demonstration in what would come to be known as ‘the Battle of Lewisham’. This is a short history of the events: https://ift.tt/2KNvzZi We only post highlights on here, for all our anniversaries follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wrkclasshistory https://ift.tt/2P5HuoT

[itsworsethanthat]

The extent of the power of money is the extent of my power. Money's properties are my — the possessor's — properties and essential powers. Thus, what I am and am capable of is by no means determined by my individuality. I am ugly, but I can buy for myself the most beautiful women. Therefore I am not ugly, for the effect of ugliness — its deterrent power — is nullified by money. I, according to my individual  characteristics, am lame, but money furnishes me with twenty-four feet. Therefore I am not lame. I am bad, dishonest, unscrupulous, stupid; but money is honoured, and hence its possessor. Money is the supreme good, therefore its possessor is good. Money, besides, saves me the trouble of being dishonest: I am therefore presumed honest. I am brainless, but money is the real brain of all things and how then should its possessor be brainless? Besides, he can buy clever people for himself, and is he who has power over the clever not more clever than the clever? Do not I, who thanks to money am capable of all that the human heart longs for, possess all human capacities? Does not my money, therefore, transform all my incapacities into their contrary?

Marx, Karl (1844), ‘Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844′ in Marx, K., & Engels, F. (2010). Marx and Engels: Collected Works Volume 3 (Karl Marx March 1843 - August 1844). London: Lawrence & Wishart. p.324

[itsworsethanthat]

Alternative covers.

[itsworsethanthat]

Westphal, K. “The Basic Context and Structure of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right”, 1993, in The Cambridge Companion to Hegel, ed. Beiser, F. 1993. p.269.

[kyliaquilor-archive]

If your language lost, it should die with dignity, not be put on artificial life-support because ‘reasons’

[domhnall-na-feannaig]

#Sorry but I have no sympathy for that fight#let the dead languages be dead#grumping#controversial opinions#because people always get annoyed with me when I say this#but Gaelic (for example) shouldn’t still exist

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Gaelic hasnt been lost.  It’s never died or been brought back.  There’s an unbroken line of native speakers going back to the beginning of the language.  That doesn’t seem like a ‘lost’ language to me.  Furthermore I’m not sure what ‘artificial life-support’ means in this context.  Gaelic is given funding for schools because there’s still native speakers of the language.  It’s no more artificial than money being given to schools for English language lessons.

[domhnall-na-feannaig]

If anything is ‘artificial’ its the imposition of a foreign language (English) into a Gaelic majority zone and native speakers having to fight for decades to be able to be taught in their own language.  Native speakers being forced to learn English to exist within their own regions because a central government would not allow services to be given in a people’s own language.

But then the clock only goes back so far with people who wish that minority languages would just die.  There’s nothing artificial about shooting someone but suddenly it becomes an ‘artificial’ act to maybe phone an ambulance?

[calystarose]

“There’s nothing artificial about shooting someone but suddenly it becomes an ‘artificial’ act to maybe phone an ambulance?” — THIS RIGHT HERE

[fenrir-kin]

Also just gonna point out here:

In the UK, the languages Gaelige, Gaelic, Cymraeg and Kernewek (that’s Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Cornish respectively) didn’t just “die out.” There was a concerted effort by the English to kill them off. 

For example, in Wales, if a child was heard speaking Welsh in a classroom, they’d be given a “Welsh Not”, a wooden plaque engraved with “WN” to hang around their neck. They’d pass it onto the next child heard speaking Welsh, and whoever had the Welsh Not at the end of the day was punished - usually with a beating. 

Kernewek was revived after a long hard struggle by the Cornish folk, and is now being taught again, but a lot about it has been lost because everyone who grew up speaking it has died.

And languages are never revived “just because.” The language of a place can offer so much insight into its history, so if you’re content to let a language die then you’re content to let history die.

People talk about “dead” languages as if they dwindle away gradually, naturally coming to an end and evolving into something else, but that’s rarely the case. Languages like Cymraeg and Gaelige and especially Kernewek didn’t have the chance to die with dignity, they were literally beaten out of my parents and grandparents. 

Is it any wonder every other country hate the English? We invade their country, steal their history, claim pieces of their history as ours or flat out re-write it, and kill every part of their culture that we can. 

It’s a miracle that any of the Celtic languages survived, so even if you don’t see the point in keeping them alive, the actual natives of each country we’ve fucked over are clinging onto what heritage they have left through the only thing they can: their language. 

[inali]

Hey OP, póg mo thóin!

[katjohnadams]

*snerk* xD

[prismatic-bell]

I would like to point all of these “just let it die” assholes directly at Hebrew.

The language was effectively dead. It had been murdered and forced-assimilated away.

But there was this dude named Ben Yehuda.

And he said “no.”

“The language of my people for four thousand years or more,” he said, “should not stop existing because of a bunch of assholes.” (Okay, this is a dramatic retelling. He probably didn’t actually say assholes.)

So he started an official movement to recreate Hebrew as closely as possible to how it had been spoken about a thousand years prior.

Today, ancient Hebrew is spoken by millions of Jews around the world weekly in our prayers and Torah readings, and modern Hebrew is the official language of eight and a half million people–many of them having been born speaking it as a first language. Many people in the first group also speak at least some modern Hebrew–and it’s possible you do, too! A lot of loan words from Hebrew and Yiddish have made their way into English (like klutz, mensch, and kibitz).

That’s hardly “on life support.” Hebrew is growing, living, and thriving because of the Enlightenment efforts of the 1800s. The same COULD be done for languages like Welsh, Navajo, and Basque if the larger powers that be said “this is important” rather than forcing a giant bastion of culture–the language in which a people lived, loved, thought, told stories, and explained their world–to die.

[captainlordauditor]

#dead languages#most people who choose to learn or relearn so called are people who would have been native speakers#had they their parents their grandparents and so on not been forcibly assemilated by colonizers#in the us specifially the idea that we should let languages die off is an extention of the idea that we should let indigeous people die off#it is a continuation of the genocide that try to turn this place into the property of europe and erase us from the world#so fuck you#also this is why i want to learn choctaw because at least i can be a part of keeping the culture of my ancestors going

[bilabialfricative]

i mean all the comments on this are super on point, but even the basest premise of the op, that languages must compete in some pseudo darwinist survival of the fittest, is tremendously bone-headed. and the idea that youd extend ideas that are already extremely gross in the social realm to the linguistic realm is so gross. moreover, the argument over which is “natural” or “artificial” is completely nonsensical, it presumes theres anything virtuous or inherently good or desirable about a process because it is supposedly “natural” which is naturalistic fallacy at its most blatant. having more languages, and keeping old languages alive, and reviving language, i think is pretty damn desirable and enriching. i dont see anything desirable or enriching about “letting languages die” because it fulfills some weird pseudo darwinist credo. and last comments are super on point in suggesting that the idea that we should let languages die cuz they “lost” to another language is philosophically an extension of the idea of letting indigenous and conquered people and their cultures die off.

[itsworsethanthat]

Property is theft.

[chiillone]

Harry Gruyaert

[niktipolos]

American exceptionalism had declared my country unique in the world, the one truly free and modern country, and instead of ever considering that that exceptionalism was no different from any other country’s nationalistic propaganda, I had internalised this belief. Wasn’t that indeed what successful propaganda was supposed to do? I had not questioned the institution of American journalism outside of the standards it set for itself – which, after all, was the only way I would discern its flaws and prejudices; instead, I accepted those standards as the best standards any country could possibly have. […] “It is different in the United States,” I once said, not entirely realising what I was saying until the words came out. I had never been called upon to explain this. “We are told it is the greatest country on earth. The thing is, we will never reconsider that narrative the way you are doing just now, because to us, that isn’t propaganda, that is truth. And to us, that isn’t nationalism, it’s patriotism. And the thing is, we will never question any of it because at the same time, all we are being told is how free-thinking we are, that we are free. So we don’t know there is anything wrong in believing our country is the greatest on earth. The whole thing sort of convinces you that a collective consciousness in the world came to that very conclusion.” “Wow,” a friend once replied. “How strange. That is a very quiet kind of fascism, isn’t it?”

Unlearning the Myth of American Innocence, Suzy Hansen.

All of the western nations have been caught in a lie, the lie of their pretended humanism; this means that their history has no moral justification, and that the west has no moral authority. - James Baldwin.

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[70sscifiart]

Peter Haars

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[berniesrevolution]

[antihegel]

[Quoting Wagner:] “Not mere music” – no musician would say that. […] Let us remember that Wagner was young at the time Hegel and Schelling seduced men’s spirits; that he guessed, that he grasped with his very hands the only thing the Germans take seriously – “the idea,” which is to say, something that is obscure, uncertain, full of intimations; that among Germans clarity is an objection, logic a refutation. […] Let us keep morals out of this: Hegel is a taste. – And not merely a German but a European taste. – A taste Wagner comprehended – to which he felt equal – which he immortalized. – He merely applied it to music – he invented a style for himself charged with “infinite meaning” – he became the heir of Hegel. – Music as “idea.” –

Nietzsche, The Case of Wagner, trans. Kaufmann (via antihegel)

[life]

An outtake from the very first cover story of LIFE magazine about the work-relief project at Fort Peck, Montana. The image illustrates lattice like support struts inside section of a giant pipe which is to be used to divert the flow of the Missouri River during construction of the Fort Peck dam. The photo was taken by the great Margaret Bourke-White, she was one of the first 4 staff members for LIFE magazine when it launched in 1936. (Margaret Bourke-White—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #LIFElegends #SheIsTheFirst #tbt

[dinosaurworld]

Swan House. Newcastle. 1985

[itsworsethanthat]

What is the relationship of man toward himself? I have described elsewhere this relationship as "marketing orientation." In this orientation, man experiences himself as a thing to be employed successfully on the market. He does not experience himself as an active agent, as the bearer of human powers. He is alienated from these powers. His aim is to sell himself successfully on the market. His sense of self does not stem from his activity as a loving and thinking individual, but from his socioeconomic role. If things could speak, a typewriter would answer the question "Who are you?" by saying "I am a typewriter," and an automobile, by saying "I am an automobile," or more specifically by saying, "I am a Ford," or "a Buick," or "a Cadillac." If you ask a man "Who are you?", he answers "I am a manufacturer," "I am a clerk," "I am a doctor--or "I am a married man," "I am the father of two kids," and his answer has pretty much the same meaning as that of the speaking thing would have. That is the way he experiences himself, not as a man, with love, fear, convictions, doubts, but as that abstraction, alienated from his real nature, which fulfills a certain function in the social system. His sense of value depends on his success: on whether he can sell himself favorably, whether he can make more of himself than he started out with, whether he is a success. His body, his mind and his soul are his capital, and his task in life is to invest it favorably, to make a profit of himself. Human qualities like friendliness, courtesy, kindness, are transformed into commodities, into assets of the "personality package," conducive to a higher price on the personality market. If the individual fails in a profitable investment of himself, he feels that he is a failure; if he succeeds, he is a success. Clearly, his sense of his own value always depends on factors extraneous to himself, on the fickle judgement of the market, which decides about his value as it decides about the value of commodities. He, like all commodities that cannot be sold profitably on the market, is worthless as far as his exchange value is concerned, even though his use value may be considerable.

Erich Fromm (1961). Marx's Concept of Man, Chapter 5: Alienation