#nnfn

[capitalism-is-parasitism]

The greatest trick white supremacy ever pulled was to convince working-class white people that they had a stake in it

Why white working-class Britons should fight to secure colonial slavery reparations | Nels Abbey

The country grew rich from slavery, but those who directly benefited the most – and still do – were wealthy. They exploited everyone, says a

[W]orking-class white people have historically and repeatedly been expected to underwrite the crimes of the white capital class.

[capitalism-is-parasitism]

[capitalism-is-parasitism]

[capitalism-is-parasitism]

[capitalism-is-parasitism]

Fossilized cities

How Cities Will Fossilize

The grand metropolises of 21st Century civilization will leave a geological legacy that will last for millennia, but some things will endure

[capitalism-is-parasitism]

Orwell reviews Hitler

"For at that date Hitler was still respectable. He had crushed the German labour movement, and for that the property-owning classes were willing to forgive him almost anything. Both Left and Right concurred in the very shallow notion that National Socialism was merely a version of Conservatism.

George Orwell’s 1940 Review of Mein Kampf

“Hitler has said to them, ‘I offer you struggle, danger, and death,’ and as a result a whole nation flings itself at his feet.”

"It is a pathetic, dog-like face, the face of a man suffering under intolerable wrongs. In a rather more manly way it reproduces the expression of innumerable pictures of Christ crucified, and there is little doubt that that is how Hitler sees himself."

[capitalism-is-parasitism]

"The mental arbiter of our good and bad actions emerged only about 5,000 years ago"

The idea of peaceful cooperation was alien to those warring tribes. The Western conscience, the inner voice of restraint, is a recent whisper on the plain of time. The mental arbiter of our good and bad actions emerged only about 5,000 years ago. In psychological terms we’ve barely emerged from the Neolithic.

As a war historian I was pessimistic about human nature. Writing the history of the mind has changed me | Paul Ham

Humans have always been willing to slaughter each other in the name of our beliefs. But history has also shown that a peaceful world order c

[capitalism-is-parasitism]

Russell on Rockefeller

Acquisitiveness — the wish to possess as much as possible of goods, or the title to goods — is a motive which, I suppose, has its origin in a combination of fear with the desire for necessaries. I once befriended two little girls from Estonia, who had narrowly escaped death from starvation in a famine. They lived in my family, and of course had plenty to eat. But they spent all their leisure visiting neighbouring farms and stealing potatoes, which they hoarded. Rockefeller, who in his infancy had experienced great poverty, spent his adult life in a similar manner.

The Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior

Bertrand Russell’s magnificent Nobel prize acceptance speech.