The White Volvo Chronicles

Thoughts in excess of 140 characters

[queerqueerspawn]

Unskilled labor doesn’t exist.

Labor which requires skills that are devalued does.

[redplebeian-deactivated20150604]

MARX MADNESS! VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE MARXIST!

[unfriendlyblackcommie-deactivat]

HOW YOU GON PUT SAMIR AMIN AND DAVID HARVEY AGAINST EACH OTHER SO EARLY LIKE FAM CHILL????

[notallmensheviks]

newton AND lukacs seriously?

[notallmensheviks]

also i get you need ppl but like i don’t think i’d call either ranciere or haraway marxists

[cathkaesque]

Why would you make me choose between hobsbawm and che

[man-fucktyler-blog]

[tkprintanddestroy-blog]

Burn this Flag 2014

[ankh-kush]

A Sandinista guerilla in Jinotega in 1978

[mrdestructo]

"What you call doxxing, I call citizen journalism."

"What you call ‘domestic terrorism,’ I call demography. For instance, when I leave a flaming cross on someone’s front lawn, that isn’t a message for them. That’s a message for everyone. It simply says, ‘A certain kind of negro lives here.’”

[minimal-impact]

[bittersweet-tremolo]

[whitevolvochronicles]

"There's a blessed equity in the in the English social system," said Grimes, "that ensures the public school man against starvation. One goes through four or five years of perfect hell when life is bound to be hell anyway, and after that the social system never lets one down." Evelyn Waugh "Decline and Fall" (1928)

[libsoc-propaganda]

[whitevolvochronicles]

Me, irl

[whitevolvochronicles]

I woke up like this

Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way; not for him the slow, gracious wandering from the halls of sleep, but a summary, forcible ejection. He lay sprawled, too wicked to move, spewed up like a broken spider-crab on the tarry shingle of morning. The light did him harm, but not as much as looking at things did; he resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again. A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum. During the night, too, he'd somehow been on a cross-country run and then been expertly beaten up by secret police. He felt bad. -Kingsley Amis "Lucky Jim"

[whitevolvochronicles]

Is the plural of jack-in-the-box "jacks in the box" or "Jack in the boxes"? Asking for a friend.

[ardor-mohr]

“Our society, as it is now structured, consists still of a few individual successes built upon a pedestal of statutory failure – economic failure, educational failure, or failure of some other sort. The whole competitive idea that a nation must have so many failures in order to produce one success is ludicrous yet it is the foundation of capitalist ideology. Why do we describe so many people as having failed? Why are we not able to recognize that in any society the richest resource is people? Why is it that people when they do have the free time now available to them do not have the facilities for discovering the potential that lies within them? Asking questions like this, you come to realize that at the deepest level socialism must mean liberation.”

– Tony Benn, Parliament, People and Power: Agenda for a Free Society  (via)

[whitevolvochronicles]

[jung-kiseok]

[whitevolvochronicles]

Labour MP Dennis Skinner speaking in response to the election of the second UK Independence Party (UKIP) MP - Mark Reckless x

[whitevolvochronicles]

Things I've been to today

1. Esoteric Buddhist cult commune 2. Halal cart 3. Duane Reade 4. Ridgewood, NJ 5. The site where three Jesuit missionaries, who later became saints, were executed 6. Megabus bathroom

[stfrancis]

St George's Church - Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation in the Middle East

The only Anglican Church in Iraq — situated on Haifa Street in Baghdad’s Red Zone — St George’s Church has been damaged by five bombs in the past three years.

Pray for St. George’s Church, for her people and her leaders Canon Andrew White and Curate Faiz Jerjeez.