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"This country owes a great debt to the Americans. They made us become a very disciplined people. We have had to be to survive. The other great favour they did us was when they bombed us to the ground they blew up all the churches as well, and put an end to Christianity in this country." - a Korean
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In the social production of their existence, men inevitably enter into definite relations, which are independent of their will, namely relations of production appropriate to a given stage in the development of their material forces of production. The totality of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society, the real foundation, on which arises a legal and political superstructure, and to which correspond definite forms of consciousness. The mode of production of material life conditions the general process of social, political, and intellectual life. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but their social existence that determines their consciousness. At a certain stage of development, the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production or — this merely expresses the same thing in legal terms — with the property relations within the framework of which they have operated hitherto. From forms of development, of the productive forces, these relations turn into their fetters. Then begins an era of social revolution. The changes in the economic foundation lead, sooner or later, to the transformation of the whole, immense, superstructure.
Marx - A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
"White collar" is a sociological definition designed to help divide and conquer, by making clerical workers think they are middle class and therefore on the same side as the bosses. You are contributing to this division. Most people do not have "class consciousness" because the conventional bourgeois view of the world is the dominant ideology and, on a surface level, in times of social peace, it squares with reality. For example, people know that they work for enterprises that are in competition with each other. So when they say "us" they mean "our company" and when they say "them" they mean the competition. BP versus Shell, Apple versus Microsoft, Ford versus GM or whatever. It generally takes some kind of crisis (like the company facing bankruptcy, or selling out to the competitor) to make clear who is the real "us" and the real "them", i.e. the bosses will pull out and sell their shares before the shit hits the fan, and the workers will be fobbed off with some derisory severance pay (if they are lucky).
- 'Internationalist'
The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world. Religion is the general theory of this world, its encyclopaedic compendium, its logic in popular form, its spiritual point dhonneur, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, and its universal basis of consolation and justification. It is the fantastic realization of the human essence since the human essence has not acquired any true reality. The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion.
Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo...
Marx - Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
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Batalla de Chile, Can Dialectics Break Bricks? Living Utopia, Society of the Spectacle, Battleship Potemkin, Family Life, Les Statues Meurent Aussi, Le fond de l'air est rouge
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Early Writings - Karl Marx, The State and Revolution - Lenin, God and the State - Bakunin, Society of the Spectacle - Debord, Papillon - Henri Charrière, Manslaughter United - Chris Hulme, Situationist International Anthology, 1991 Kurdish Uprisng - B.M BLOB, Mexico is not only Chiapas nor is the rebellion in Chiapas merely a Mexican affair - TPTG,The Closed Window Onto Another Life - endangeredphoenix, Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell, Homo Sacer Quartet - fleshmachine, CURRENTLY READING: Collected Works Vol.4 - Marx & Engels, The Period of Transition - International Communist Current, Organise! - Anarchist Federation, International Review - International Communist Current, Capital - Marx, The German Ideology - Marx, The General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century - Proudhon, How Shall We Bring About the Revolution? - Emile Pataud & Emile Pouget, Communst Organisation and Class Consciousness - International Communist Current, Selected Works - V I Lenin, Marx & Engels - Selected Works, Woman Under Socialism - Bebel, British Communist Left - Hayes, Foundations of Christianity - Kautsky,The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade - McCoy, The Other Israel The Radical Case Against Zionism - Bober, 1917 - Communist Workers' Organisation, History of the Russian Revolution - Trotsky
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