February 2012
Extreme poverty in US has more than doubled since... →
anticapitalist:
A policy brief recently issued by the National Poverty Center (NPC) reveals that the number of households in the US living on less than $2 a day per person has increased by 130 percent since 1996, from 636,000 to some 1.46 million today.
This means that some 4 million people in “the richest country on earth” (according to US capitalism’s apologists) are surviving on less than...
“The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to...”
– Edward Abbey (via terrorofexistence)
“America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that...”
– Tom Morello (via iwanttheairwaves)
“Vegan alternatives are not inherently better for animals or the planet. Pleather...”
– Vegans miss the larger point (via voorwaarts)
/YOUR SOY- AND CORN-BASED PRODUCTS ARE GIANT MONOCROPS CONTRIBUTING TO THE DECLINE OF SMALL FARMERS, SOIL EROSION, FERTILIZER-RUNOFF-INDUCED OCEANIC DEADZONES, AND/OR THE CLEARCUTTING OF THE AMAZON, among lots of other fun environmental devastations
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Ron Paul, the "I'm not racist, but..." candidate.
“Crucially, an opposition to capitalism and landlordism, and a politics of class...”
– Michael Schmidt and Lucien van der Walt - Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism (2009)
“The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.”
– Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo (via itsfromabook)
From theory, action.: You know you're a manarchist... →
notafraidofruins:
you say you’re a feminist in the hopes of ~getting with radical chicks~ whenever a woman is trying to engage in actual political discussion you ignore her or talk about her looks you will only accept the big-name white male anarchists as people who have actually…
“Do not discount the author and the artist, for they are the catalysts of...”
– Karl Marx (via storkankles)
The Dead Ráibéad: High Price Of Monopoly: Why... →
anirishginger:
Source: Dr. John Boyd / BlackFarmers.org
Black farmers in the United States are disappearing. Their numbers shrank from approximately 900,000 in the 1920s down to about 43,000 in the last U.S. Census — down to less than 1 percent of America’s farmers.
But the staggering 98 percent decline in…
“Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.”
– Frederick Douglass (via whb2)
“I’m not a Democrat, I’m not a Republican, and I don’t even consider myself an...”
– Malcolm X, May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965 (via fuckyeahmarxismleninism)
SocialisTexan: White people on racism →
angryfuckingliberal:
People of color are incarcerated at a higher rate with greater sentences for the same charges faced by white people. “…”
Unemployment is higher for POC than it is for white people. “Well, they should find jobs, then.”
A disproportionate amount of people of color are living in poverty in the United States. “They should work harder.”
POC are paid less than white people...
“When the highwayman holds his gun to your head, you turn your valuables over to...”
– Alexander Berkman (via socialistscum)
sinidentidades:
Atheists are just as oppressed as PoCs.
Atheists are just as oppressed as the queer community.
Atheists are just as oppressed as people suffering from disabilities.
Atheists are just as oppressed as—
but
it’s just a comparison.
but
…
Lenin up comrades...
iwanttheairwaves:
State and Revolution.
Imperialism: Highest Stage of capitalism.
What is to be done?
Letter to the American working men.
The Proletarian Revolution and Renegade Kautsky.
The April Theses.
Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder.
IOWA: Life Sentence For Abortion Docs? →
humanformat:
As the nation is deluged in an avalanche of bills restricting abortion access, Tea Party freshman state Rep. Kim Pearson has introduced an Iowa bill that some are calling the most radical of them all.
Among other things, the bill makes it so a doctor that performs an abortion commits “feticide” — a Class A felony, which is punishable by life imprisonment without the chance for...
Ron Paul 2012.
socialistexan:
Because my right to smoke weed as a white man is greater than your right to not be a second class citizen.
Patriotism: The Menace to Liberty by Emma Goldman →
pdxrain:
Indeed, conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism. Let me illustrate. Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who have had the fortune of being born on some particular spot, consider themselves better, nobler, grander, more intelligent than the living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is,...
