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Towards Post-Capitalist Spaces

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I had the opportunity to attend the final day of the Oppositional Architecture conference yesterday, despite some difficulties getting to Brooklyn. It was a chance to hear David Harvey really speak in his element.

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Gene Krupa and his orchestra with Drum Boogie from Ball of Fire (1941)

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I mean, the liberal democrats aren’t going to tell the average American, “Yeah, you’re being shafted because of the policies that we’ve established over the years that we’re maintaining now.” That’s not going to be an answer. And they’re not getting answers from the left. So, there’s an internal coherence and logic to what they get from Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and the rest of these guys. And they sound very convincing, they’re very self-confident, and they have an answer to everything—a crazy answer, but it’s an answer. And it’s our fault if that goes on. So one thing to be done is don’t ridicule these people, join them, and talk about their real grievances and give them a sensible answer, like, “Take over your factories.”
Noam Chomsky Interviewed on Worker Occupations and the Future of Radical Labor | Mostly Water (via clingtomymouth)
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I sure hope that this fall didn’t shatter this big, black, ironic, post-emo eyeglasses. Not that he needs them or anything.

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Tagged: political correctness

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YOU THOUGHT HE WAS DUMB FOR PICKING PALIN as his running mate? Or maybe for singing “bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran” during a sound check prior to an election speech? Well, John McCain has definitely lathered the idiot-icing on the stupid-cake. Speaking at the Halifax International Security Forum, ie. warmongers from Europe and the Americas, McCain suggested that “political correctness” played a role in preventing anyone from doing anything about Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan before it was too late.
In one sense, he’s right - if politicians like him hadn’t voted for war in Iraq and Afghanistan there wouldn’t be hundreds of thousands of damaged men and women returning from brutalizing populations halfway around the world. And Hasan wouldn’t have faced racist harassment on a daily basis. But it was politically correct to support the vilest of wars and the suspension of civil liberties. It was politically correct to keep sending soldiers back into war zones to kill and die, even though it was leading to growing rates of suicide and inter-personal violence. And we know this is what was - and continues to be - politically correct because trash like McCain are rewarded for it by being paid big bucks to be Sentators and big bucks to come to Canada to peddle their filth.


But I suspect that we won’t hear anyone calling John McCain politically correct because that would be politically incorrect - just like it would be to point out that at Fort Hood 76 soldiers have committed suicide since 2003 - out of a population of about 50,000, much higher than the national average

RedBedHead: Sen. McCain Blames “Political Correctness” For Fort Hood Massacre

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Patrick Moberg is the poor man's Jim Jarmusch.

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The revolution will be red-hot. That’s probably Sly at the easel, although in my heart it’s “Body By” Jake Steinfeld.

lowindustrial:

The revolution will be red-hot. That’s probably Sly at the easel, although in my heart it’s “Body By” Jake Steinfeld.

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Motorhead - Ace of Spades

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Guess who’s going to see Motörhead this week?
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Guess who’s going to see Motörhead this week?

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