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Marshall Berman | Quotations
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All that is solid melts into air: the experience of modernity. Marx’s bourgeoisie moves within this tragic orbit. He places its underworld in a worldly context and shows how, in a million factories and mills, banks and exchanges, dark powers work in broad daylight, social forces are driven in dreadful directions by relentless market imperatives that not even the most powerful bourgeois can control. (102). October 22, 2013. Posted in Berman Marshall. Posted by qwpoi on October 22, 2013. You are commenting...
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grief | Quotations
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Most of us know, of course, that people feel sad when they grieve. But we know this as an abstract fact, a it of information. It is not until we actually experience a profound loss that we really know how intensely sadness can penetrate our being, how all- encompassing and bottomless it can seem. 26 (George Bonnano). 8230;he doesn’t know how huge and never-ending it is, the death of a parent. (161) (Russell T Davies). Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone. Silence the pianos and with muffled drum.
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Kim San | Quotations
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Song of Ariran: A Korean Communist in the Chinese Revolution. Terrorism has been an integral phase of the Korean struggle against the Japanese. Like anarchism, it develops in a society of isolated peasant units where mass action is difficult. It is a reaction against constant suppression and revulsion against a sense of frustration and futility. It expresses the yearning for freedom that only those who are slaves can really feel. During the Commune I learned the bitter lesson that the party must never be...
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Joy and despair | Quotations
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Vincent walks home, meditating as he goes; he realizes that from the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair. (Gide). October 17, 2013. Posted in Gide Andre. Posted by qwpoi on October 17, 2013. Https:/ rayuelaz.wordpress.com/2013/10/17/joy-and-despair/. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). Notify me of new comments via email.
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Marshall Berman | Quotations
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All that is solid melts into air. As I saw one of the loveliest of these buildings being wrecked for the road, I felt a grief that, I can see now, is endemic to modern life. So often the price of ongoing and expanding modernity is the destruction not merely of “traditional” and “pre-modern” institutions and environments but and here is the real tragedy of everything most vital and beautiful in the modern world itself. (295). Why did the futurologists’s laughter make me want to cry? On p 329 of Berman).
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Piero Gleijeses | Quotations
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Repression in Arbenz’s Guatemala began only in late May 1954, in dramatic circumstances brought about by the United States. (216). Hope was edged with fear. The Latin Americans were convinced that Washington was preparing to violate the principle of nonintervention. To American journalists, these fears were patently anachronistic: couldn’t the Latins see that since FDR, the United States had forsworn interference in the affairs of its sisters? They were stamped with a hammer and sickle. (318). Ever since...
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Sherman Alexie | Quotations
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Watching PBS, it occurs. To me that I want to be. Yo Yo Ma’s cello. That I’m sexually attracted. To Yo Yo Ma? He’s cute and thin. Looks great in a tux,. And makes the big bucks,. But I long to be simultaneously. As strong and fragile. As the cello. I want to be. The union of fingertip. And string. I want less. To be a timorous human. To become a solid. Wooden thing, warm. To the touch but much. Alone in my case. I need. To flee the mystery. Of mortality and insanity. And become that space. Auden, W. H.
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William Faulkner | Quotations
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Go down, moses. It was of the wilderness, the big woods, bigger and older than any recorded document:–of white man fatuous enough to believe he had bought any fragment of it, of Indian ruthless enough to pretend that any fragment of it had been his to convey. So I will have to see him. He thought, without dread or even hope. I will have to look at him. And I know what you will say now: That if truth is one thing to me and another thing to you, how will we choose which is truth? 334, delta autumn). Https:...
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Silvia Federici | Quotations
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Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and the Feminist Struggle. It is the demand by which our nature ends and our struggle begins because just to want wages for housework means to refuse that work as the expression of our nature. And therefore to refuse precisely the female role that capital has invented for us. Our aim is to be priceless, to price ourselves out of the market, for housework and factory work and office work to become “uneconomic.” (39). The Scramble for Africa. By contrast, ...
