The freer the society the more sophisticated its system of thought control and indoctrination.The ruling elite, clever and class-conscious, make sure of that...
For those who stubbornly seek freedom there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms & practices of indoctrination.These are easy to perceive in totalitarian societies, much less so in the system of brainwashing under freedom to which we are subjected.
You need only look at the parts of Europe that were colonized.Those parts - like Ireland - are much like the 3rd World.The patterns are striking. So when people in the 3rd World blame the history of imperialism for their plight - they have a very strong case to make.
#Chomsky
You need only look at the parts of Europe that were colonized.Those parts - like Ireland - are much like the 3rd World.The patterns are striking. So when people in the 3rd World blame the history of imperialism for their plight - they have a very strong case to make.
#Chomsky
When the Russian system was finally collapsing,I was asked by a leftest journal,to write an article on,ya know,what does it mean when socialism collapses.And I wrote an article and I said this is a small victory for socialism - they refused to publish it.
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When the Russian system was finally collapsing,I was asked by a leftest journal,to write an article on,ya know,what does it mean when socialism collapses.And I wrote an article and I said this is a small victory for socialism - they refused to publish it.
https://t.co/NwUmlrrvyn
Others are the domestic colonization by which the poor subsidize the rich, and the contempt for democracy…Yet another enduring theme is the self-righteousness in which plunder, slaughter, and oppression are clothed.
#SocialismForTheRichCapitalismForThePoor#Militarism#COVID19
The outbreak of a crisis follows a situation where demand for labor is very strong and wages rise…in reality this phenomenon is not the cause of the crisis but only its ‘stormy petrel’ as Marx calls it in the 2nd Volume of Capital; it is a mere subsidiary factor to circumstance.
Others are the domestic colonization by which the poor subsidize the rich, and the contempt for democracy…Yet another enduring theme is the self-righteousness in which plunder, slaughter, and oppression are clothed.
#SocialismForTheRichCapitalismForThePoor#Militarism#COVID19
The introduction (to Animal Farm) was about censorship in England. (Orwell) said, “Look, this is a satire about a totalitarian state, but we shouldn’t be self-righteous — it’s not that different in free England.”
@ITVChase@IrishPrisons#BannedBooksWeek
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There are some questions you don’t ask, as was pointed out by George Orwell years ago. He wrote an essay, an important essay…..and it was not published, incidentally. It was the introduction to Animal Farm, which everybody’s read in school
- But you didn’t read any introduction.
The capitalist method of producing a world market goes hand-in-hand with decimation & even extermination of whole tribes.This process, still going on, has accompanied capitalist development since the discovery of America.
#RosaLuxemburg#DeleteTheBourgeoisie#SocialismOrBarbarism
There are some questions you don’t ask, as was pointed out by George Orwell years ago. He wrote an essay, an important essay…..and it was not published, incidentally. It was the introduction to Animal Farm, which everybody’s read in school
- But you didn’t read any introduction.
The introduction (to Animal Farm) was about censorship in England. (Orwell) said, “Look, this is a satire about a totalitarian state, but we shouldn’t be self-righteous — it’s not that different in free England.”
@ITVChase@IrishPrisons#BannedBooksWeek
https://t.co/215ppyfcxC
Socialism used to mean something.If you go back far enough it meant basically control of production by producers, elimination of wage labor, democratization of all spheres of life…workers control in factories, community control of communities and so on - That was socialism once.
If capital were to wait for the increase of its consumers through natural reproduction it would still be…in the swaddling clothes of its manufacturing period. In fact, capital does not dream of waiting.Rather, it uses other abbreviated methods to expand the basis of accumulation
Socialism used to mean something.If you go back far enough it meant basically control of production by producers, elimination of wage labor, democratization of all spheres of life…workers control in factories, community control of communities and so on - That was socialism once.
Madison, who was the main framer of the #Constitution, was opposed to democracy, contrary to what you’re taught. He felt power should be in the hands of the wealth of the nation – the set of men who have sympathy for property owners and their rights.
#Chomsky#ConstitutionDay
For as long as we’re not wandering around in thin air but standing on the surface of this capitalist earth, what incentive do capitalists have to make use of technological progress and invest ever larger sums in constant capital if the whole benefit is only for the working class?