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"But the basic problem, cut to the size of a tweet, is that the economy is the name for a hostage situation in which the vast majority of the population is made dependent on a small minority through implicit threat of violence."

http://www.ultra-com.org/project/why-riot/

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Value-Form Theory

"The problem that much communization theory points out is that, if your revolutionary praxis is simply to emphasize (materially and ideologically) labourers as a class (by building up industry, focusing the entire society toward developing productive forces rather than re-organizing the "insides" of the means of production to be more amenable to those using the means and the product, etc) then you are simply affirming the value-form as such, which IS very much the class relation...

...In short, Value-form theory tries to describe capitalism. It is a negative critique of capitalism. Whenever the article above says "Value-form theory" or "VFT," you can almost always replace it with "capitalism," since value-form theory is NOT claiming that these things are facts of nature, but facts of capitalism which can (and ought to be) abolished--i.e., it is not an overdetermining totality."

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“'Good’ conversation is ‘good’ rather than ‘disappointing’—it does not merely chew over factual disputes or retreat into a play of disembodied concepts—because it, and it alone, allows conversational partners to challenge one another and to learn from one another in a fashion which brings all things about each partner into play. [...] And in case the notion of ‘conversation’ should seem too polite to capture the Marxist notion of class hatred, this is to be noted: nothing is less polite than rigorous conversation pursued to its end. For Hegel, such conversation amounted to a ‘drama of suspicion’; for Marx, famously, immanent critique plunges over into satire and vitriol. No-holds-barred conversation precludes none of this. Least of all does it mean that one’s placing of oneself at issue entails deriving one’s agenda and categories from those planted on enemy terrain. All that it means is that the dialogical condition of immanence is sustained and, thereby, the dogmatisms of philosophy and methodology are avoided. No-one says that one has to like the opponents whom, literally for the sake of argument, one agrees to respect. And no-one can say in advance where (into what issues of life-and-death struggle) good conversation may lead.” —Richard Gunn, ‘Marxism and Philosophy’

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"In 1997, there were two romantic comedies among the top 20 box office performers. In 1998 and 1999, there were three. Each cracked $100 million in sales. Even as recently as 2005, five romantic comedies topped $100 million at the box office. Contrast that with 2013: There's not one romantic comedy in the top 50 films. Not even in the top 100." #winning

- The Village Voice

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Welcome to the poorest generation since the Great Depression.  Promised a Pax Americana fueled by infinite economic growth and technological advance, we've instead been offered the "new normal" of constant war, economic collapse and environmental catastrophe. We've grown up faced with the imminent threat of the largest, most extensive prison system the world has ever seen. We are constantly surveilled, our phone calls monitored and internet browsing recorded by new federal agencies designed for the purpose. We were raised in an era of barbaric apartheid, where police can stop you, frisk you and ask for your documents at will--where words like "illegal," "thug," "criminal," and "felon," are thinly coded racial slurs, with all the connotations of their predecesors.  We have many names. We are the Millennials because we represent the turning of an era. We are Generation Fucked because, well, obviously. And we are Generation Zero, because zero is what we've been left with. Zero wealth, zero freedom, zero future. We have nothing to our names but war, debt and a crippled environment. Going forward, we only have each other. Our future's been looted. It's time to loot back.

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One year since the death of President Chavez. Fightaaa

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Lyudmila Pavlichenko: Soviet Sniper during World War II - one of the most successful in historida. 

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Abbye "Pudgy" Stockton (1917-2006): Professional Strongwoman