Jun 24
Karl Marx
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Karl Marx
dying right now
Robert Owen - Tears of History (Sorry Stones), 2000-4 [Astral black granite, sizes variable]
Robert Owen, Moon glow II, 1971
“Shall the well-being of the poor, half-naked, half-famished, untaught and untrained, daily increasing to a most alarming extent in these islands, not call forth one petition, one delegate, or one rational effective legislative measure? No! For such has been our education…”— Robert Owen 17th century
Although I don’t agree with all of Robert Owen’s philosophy, I found this excerpt particularly powerful when considering the explosion of homelessness today in America’s cities.
Historian Sterling F. Delano reveals that there were at least 119 experiments in communal living that took place in the United States between 1800 and 1859. Guess how many succeeded?
