From this standpoint, as Raymond Williams declared, the problem is not that we are “too materialist” but that we are “not materialist enough.” A high-consumption, throwaway society in which the world of commodities has been transformed by advertising into a “magic kingdom” devoted to the pursuit of symbolic needs will inevitably be destructive of its environmental surroundings
KEY QT
use” of which is to enhance exchange value for the capitalist.
like the stock market?
transcend the limits of radical horizontalism
is it possible that horizontalism doesn't work?
idea that horizontalism is a model and a demand and a philosophy rolled into one that it can’t possibly be shared by their political opposite
reminds me of twitter and teargas where they wouldnt let john speak
the protesters actually won
how?
You do it with bureaucracy.
curiious
How did OWS blow all the promise of its early days? Why do even the most popular efforts of the Left come to be mired in a gluey swamp of academic talk and pointless antihierarchical posturing?
and how is this preventable? what are the benefits/harms of marxist academia?
uncritical groupthink?
key
Once upon a time I would have been embarrassed to hold a copy of this magazine on a crowded subway, but now it was people like him who would have to conceal what they did. Your service to the 1 percent would no longer be something you could boast about without feeling the contempt of your fellow Metro passengers.
interested in the popularity of marxism right now
What remains, as before, is to expand and transform the franchise, and to install, by nonviolence if necessary, the real participation of the people in the institutions that already plan and govern the international economy. At least that was the logic of Occupy Wall Street.
confused here
elay the inevitable
I like this
new form of prod
money turning itself into money
Hence the slogan “We are the 99%,” which, heroic aspirations of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) aside, is nonsensical in strict reference to the division of labor.1 On the matter of class composition, Occupy claimed a distributional identity, rather than a productive one, as “the 99%” refers to the distribution of the surplus, rather than its production or extraction. This explains its antipathy towards the national electoral parties whose shared commitment to redistributing resources to “the 1%,” either by weakness or inclination, was revealed by the “Grand Bargain” proposed by Barack Obama and John Boehner. It also explains why this antipathy did not extend to left-leaning syndicates like the unions of teachers, construction trades, health care, and service employees, whose own advocacy was in no way reflected at the national level, and whose support for Occupy was frequent and essential.
reflect
Aqui, hay duda de si es adorable y si puede querer despues la pena de un corazon roto, una historia sobre añoranza y amor
proyectando hacia el futuro, con nostalgia
El tono: desperado, pero un poco esperanzado. Amor no es imposible, hay un futuro posiblemente, pero será dificil
La Sonor a Matancera - una banda de Cuba, empiezó en 1924 en Barrio Ojo de Agua y continuó durante 5 decadas. Musica Afro-Cuban anteriormente ha sido prohibido en alguan restaurantes y hoteles, pero cuando el presidente de Cuba, Gerardo Machado, los invitió a jugar a su fiesta, simbolozando una nueva normalización y apreciación por esto tipo de musica
Quiere estar enamorado sin los riesgos
alcanzaba
was reaching
sembramos
we plant
bardas
fences
bocetos
sketches
impedir
to prevent
meseta
plateau
polémico
controversial
concibe
conceived
enmudecidas paredes
muted walls
involucra
that involves
jornada
working day
respalde
to back
minera canadiense
Canadian mining
rigen
they govern
ajena
other perople's/foregin
alistaba
to put on a list
manantial
spring
escoltaban
they were escorting
sostener
to hold
fama
Fame