May 2012
4 posts
"Courage"
idleanim:
April 2012
20 posts
“This son whose father’s existence in this world is historical and speculative even before the son has entered it is in a bad way. All his life the son carries before him the idol of a perfection to which he can never attain. The father, dead, has euchered the son out of his patrimony. For it is the death of the father to which the son is entitled and to which he is heir, more so than his...
2. The demobilizing effects of parliamentary...
Parliamentary representation has furthermore the effect of transforming the parties that engage themselves in parliamentarism. The members that become parliamentarians are transformed into representatives of the movement. Conversely, the movement becomes represented by its leaders. Hence, the reformist strategy implies the establishment of a moment of delegation in the structure of the reformist...
反对自由主义
（一九三七年九月七日）
我们主张积极的思想斗争，因为它是达到党内和革命团体内的团结使之利于战斗的武器。每个共产党员和革命分子，应该拿起这个武器。
但是自由主义取消思想斗争，主张无原则的和平，结果是腐朽庸俗的作风发生，使党和革命团体的某些组织和某些个人在政治上腐化起来。
自由主义有各种表现。
因为是熟人、同乡、同学、知心朋友、亲爱者、老同事、老部下，明知不对，也不同他们作原则上的争论，任其下去，求得和平和亲热。或者轻描淡写地说一顿，不作彻底解决，保持一团和气。结果是有害于团体，也有害于个人。这是第一种。
不负责任的背后批评，不是积极地向组织建议。当面不说，背后乱说；开会不说，会后乱说。心目中没有集体生活的原则，只有自由放任。这是第二种。
事不关己，高高挂起；明知不对，少说为佳；明哲保身，但求无过。这是第三种。
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The Sorcerer and His Magic:
Since the pioneering work of Cannon, we understand more clearly the psycho-physiological mechanisms underlying the instances reported from many parts of the world of death by exorcism and the casting of spells. An individual who is aware that he is the object of sorcery is thoroughly convinced that he is doomed according to the most solemn traditions of his group. His friends and relatives share...
smooth smoky summers by Marcus Garvey on Grooveshark
your rights are not being eroded; they are already... →
quadradette:
two articles worth reading
In a five-four ruling this week, the supreme court decided that anyone can be strip-searched upon arrest for any offense, however minor, at any time. This horror show ruling joins two recent horror show laws: the NDAA, which lets anyone be arrested forever at any…
Television news is routinely reported in the form of specific events or particular cases — Iyengar calls this “episodic” news framing — as distinct from “thematic” coverage which places political issues and events in some general context. “Episodic framing,” he says, “depicts concrete events that illustrate issues, while thematic framing presents...
All eyes were cast upward to the sky. The Scaffold — the Moon herself — was disintegrating into flame above them. The world was coming to an end. Soon the fires would claim the planet as well. All that was left was to pray. And so they prayed. “Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.” “Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world,...
March 2012
28 posts
团结—批评—团结
This democratic method of resolving contradictions among the people was epitomized in 1942 in the formula “unity — criticism — unity”. To elaborate, that means starting from the desire for unity, resolving contradictions through criticism or struggle, and arriving at a new unity on a new basis. In our experience this is the correct method of resolving contradictions among...
So, then, you noticed in a newspaper that If on a winter’s night a traveler had appeared, the new book by Italo Calvino, who hadn’t published for several years. You went to the bookshop and bought the volume. Good for you.
In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Following this visual trail, you have forced your way through the...
Slavoj Žižek – The Wire, or, the clash of... →
“The serpent still whispers: For God doth know that in what day soever you shall...”
– A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr.
We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked and dejected with a lost opportunity. The “tide in the affairs of men” does not remain at the flood; it...
“I like her, and I like liking her. The process of liking her is fun. I just sit...”