Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.
I doubt it. Being on the left means you're constantly annoyed and exasperated by other leftists, but you do it anyway because it's about a commitment to human liberation. It's not a social club
Just a friendly warning. We don’t even make $200k per year in Congress despite working nearly 140 days. If we aren’t properly compensated, a lot of us will go to the private sector and you will be left with some real idiots in Congress.
When China suffered great famine in the end of 1950s. US denied China from buying grains. It even spreaded the words that Mao allowed it to happen and tens of millions of Chinese died. Chinese people couldn't do anything but endure. They learned that they can only rely on themselves.
Fast forward to today, now US-led World Bank is accusing China for hoarding food and fertiliser.
The irony.
John Brown understood that only way to free America from the scourge of white supremacy was to get rid of white supremacists by any means necessary.
He was right then.
He is right now.