#novack

[yngwrthr]

What could be more anomalous than for a would be socialist to support the president at the helm of the major imperialist power and then defend this in the name of Marxism?

George Novack, review of Michael Harrington’s “Twilight of Capitalism”, 1977.

[eloquent-overlord]

Dean: hey, how much money do you have

Cas: uh, like 69 cents?

Dean: ah, you know what that means

Cas, sniffling: I don’t have enough money for chicken nugget

[yngwrthr]

He [Trotsky] became tense, agitated. 'Upon going back to the States,' he urged, 'you comrades must at once take up the struggle against Eastman’s distortion and repudiation of dialectical materialism. There is nothing more important than this. Pragmatism, empiricism, is the greatest curse of American thought. You must inoculate younger comrades against its infection.'

Leon Trotsky to George Novack. Understanding History: Marxist Essays, “Trotsky’s Views on Dialectical Materialism” (1980)

[politemisanthropy]

The experience of nothingness arises when we consciously become aware of--and appropriate--our own actual horizons. What once seemed fixed and steady dissolves. What seemed certain, necessary, and stable suddenly seems arbitrary and unfounded. We do not know who we are. Yet we keep inventing ourselves. We continue to throw up symbols against the dark reeling formlessness in which we seem to be adrift, like space ships whose rockets no longer fire, whose direction can no longer be controlled. It has become part of the human condition in our time, at least for those who attain a consciousness that is increasingly communicable, to face the formlessness of nothingness. It is the task of ethical reflection today to make such formlessness its starting place. That nothingness cannot be evaded. Fidelity to it, moreover, liberates, instructs, delights. In comparison, the pursuit of happiness that we used to share seems pallid, dehumanizing, and sickeningly destructive.

Novack (The Experience of Nothingness)

[kitchenzz-blog]

kitchen by Christian Gladu Design http://www.houzz.com/photos/358711/Novack-craftsman-kitchen-dc-metro

[radiomortale]

NIEUWE EDITIE RADIO MORTALE LIVE: DONDERDAG 20 MAART

Donderdag 20 maart is de eerstvolgende Radio Mortale Live! De eerste bevestiging is ook binnen: Novack komt spelen en daar zijn we heel blij mee! De band brengt 21 april hun 2e album Arrivals uit en geeft bij ons een voorproefje van de live-show. Kom je ook kijken, donderdag 20 maart in de Sugarfactory?