ladypoverty

A view of the top, from a perspective at the bottom

Friday, October 05, 2018

Socialism in America

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What socialism is, what Communism was, and a summary of Marx's Capital Vol. 1.
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Wednesday, July 04, 2018

In Dependence Days

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Today we celebrate trading British rule for corporate rule! What does being an American mean to you?
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Monday, February 13, 2012

Ties that bind

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Alexandra Popoff, Sophia Tolstoy : The Tolstoyan agricultural colonies were notorious for various incidents, which led to their breakup. ...
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Friday, February 10, 2012

The noise made by people

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Anton Chekhov, Peasants : During the summer and winter months there were hours and days when these people appeared to live worse than catt...
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Friday, January 20, 2012

Yeah, buddies

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Bloomberg Businessweek : A businesswoman who can maintain her poise in a strip club will prove to be a team player. Try not to appear shoc...
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Monday, November 14, 2011

Free time: Marx and individualism

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"The free development of individualities, and hence not the reduction of necessary labor time so as to posit surplus labor, but rather ...
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Wednesday, November 09, 2011

Dialectics

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"The dialectical mode of thinking, at least as I construe it, precludes closure of the argument at any particular point. The intriguing...
Tuesday, November 08, 2011

Malthus and overpopulation

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"[Malthus] … relates a specific quantity of people to a specific quantity of necessaries. Ricardo immediately and correctly confronted ...
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Sunday, October 30, 2011

Most Americans support Occupy Wall Street

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" Last week a poll by the National Journal found that 59 per cent [of Americans] either fully or strongly agreed with the “aims” of [Oc...
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Saturday, October 29, 2011

A brief guide to contemporary economics

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" Market capitalism creates inherent difficulties. The two most obvious are macroeconomic instability and extremes of inequality. Th...
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

"The future of work"

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" What about the people who do not command any kind of premium in the marketplace? One strategy could be to find a high-flyer and st...
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Thursday, October 20, 2011

Spending within your means

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"Hence still today the demand for industriousness and also for saving , self-denial , is made not upon the capitalists but on the wo...
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Occupy Philly

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It's True in Philadelphia, Too: A Film for All Youse Articulate Activist Types. from Dog, Pig, and Wise Horse on Vimeo .
Tuesday, August 30, 2011

PSA from my mom

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Going away for a while. When I come back I hope you will be fully prepared to discuss Season 1 of the Jersey Shore . Also: My mom really w...
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Friday, August 26, 2011

Marx and communism

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Samuel Brittan, Financial Times : Marx has suffered not only from sycophants, but from critics who identify him with the Stalin dictatorsh...
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Thursday, August 25, 2011

Libya and the left

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US citizens have a relationship to their government which obligates them to oppose its crimes against themselves and others. Because this i...
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Friday, August 19, 2011

Radicalism and reform

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Anarchism has always made the point, correctly, that states exist to defend a minority of wealth and privilege against the majority of the c...
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Thursday, August 18, 2011

The grapes of laughs

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The New York Times wants to know how much an apple would cost if farm workers had rights like other Americans. Might it unduly discourage U...
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Capital concerns

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Gautam Malkani, Financial Times : Another much-discussed difference was the role of consumerism. In place of the traditionally anti-capita...
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Thursday, August 11, 2011

Indignities of labor

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Economist : The movement [Joe] Hill lived and died for has proved less durable. As Mr Adler recalls, the Wobblies flourished for a brief, ...
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Monday, August 08, 2011

My own private John Carpenter soundtrack

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Tuesday, August 02, 2011

A socialist case against "small government"

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Economist : Once upon a time the American right led the world when it came to rethinking government; now it is an intellectual pygmy. The ...
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Kissing the joy as it flies

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When you experience something beautiful there is often a kind of high that accompanies it; and like any high it is hard to sustain intensely...
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Thursday, July 21, 2011

Dividing lines

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From every corner you hear the refrain, "I am this way, they are that way -- and they're wrong." It's very common amongst...
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Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Sex muskets

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I am called out for not "knowing" who Johnny Rotten is. I say, "I don't know lots of things." It's an appeal t...
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Monday, July 11, 2011

Surround sounds 2

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I am very moved by the Lady Gaga song dedicated to her father, Razzi.
Wednesday, July 06, 2011

Open letter to a dude

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Dear dude, If you must expectorate all over the sidewalk, you will leave me no choice but to characterize you as the type of person who ex...
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Friday, July 01, 2011

Independence Day

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I heartily endorse this event and/or product.
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Thursday, June 30, 2011

Scowl

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I've seen the best memes of my generation destroyed by gladness .
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Save yourselves

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If management suspects you of arriving to the job sober, for God's sake don't let on that you're also dependable.
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Surround sounds

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I'm left to conclude that when people come into the city asking, "How do you stand all the noise and excitement?" it just mean...
Friday, June 24, 2011

Week in review

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Correspondence with the proprietor at It's Just A Ride helped me arrive at my new summer's resolution: Less time on the internet, m...
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Wednesday, June 22, 2011

We're talking about practice

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Even if the political project is not easily resolved, it should be easily understood: to live the way you want without denying anyone else t...
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Monday, June 20, 2011

Song ideas

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The most interesting thing about playing the guitar is when certain things change while others remain the same. For me, that is a more natu...
Thursday, June 16, 2011

Building socialism

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In order to "draw the line between the monopolists and the people," in the words of E.P. Thompson, it's never enough to merely...
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Behind the iron hurtin'

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Did the fall of the IOZian Union contribute to the proliferation of weapons of ass destruction?
Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Good news for me and you and everyone we know

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While there are many epic conflicts happening in the world today, odds are they aren't between you and that anonymous driver/customer se...
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Friday, June 10, 2011

Between us

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The more social an event becomes, typically the more commercial. You can go to a party and expect certain patterns of conversation which ma...
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Thursday, June 09, 2011

When success all looks the same

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American individualism begins with the idea that either you are "somebody" or you are "nobody"; and it ends with whateve...
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Wednesday, June 08, 2011

OMFG! Best friend at work just totally clock-blocked me

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WTF! So to summarize it's a gorgeous afternoon and all I'm thinking since I started my shift is when will hell recede enough to sta...
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Tuesday, June 07, 2011

Virasana (Hero's pose)

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Your life is the terrifying space between purchases.
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Thursday, June 02, 2011

Girls wear less clothing in summer, colleague reports

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In what really could have developed into a conversation about anything else, a co-worker today argued that girls wear fewer articles of clot...
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Wednesday, June 01, 2011

Remembering IOZ

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I wanted to say something about the retirement of IOZ. I don't remember how I first came across this blog, but it was enormously influe...
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011

I like girls

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Ever since I first became a heterosexual, I have always liked girls. I don't mean in the normal American way, where you pretty much hat...
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Friday, May 27, 2011

Oh, as if the free movement of capital were not enough...

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Today I am oppressed by the heat.
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Thursday, May 26, 2011

Revolutionary roads

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Che Guevara once said that the revolutionary must be guided by a deep and abiding love for humanity, though after three days in Bolivia he c...
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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Scary person wants to know how my day is going

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In an alarming departure from my usual revolutionary routine, another person approached me this morning in what appeared to be a sincere att...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Nocturnal revisions

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Not sleeping well. Dreamt I was an entrepreneur with a line of hydrant-shaped greeting cards for dogs called RSVPee-Pees that wasn't fe...
Monday, May 23, 2011

There is still hope the world will end while we are still alive

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I'll be the first to say I was pissed when the world neglected to end last Saturday night. Even though the sky got dark and the wind pi...
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Friday, May 20, 2011

Other people pose biggest obstacle to the dissemination of my views

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For too long have I labored before this 17-inch screen with its "cathode rays" so that the world might bear witness to the sagacit...
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Exhaust fumes are something that I breathe a lot of, and the shit is beginning to get on my nervous system

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Exhaust fumes, whether administered at home or on the job, are something I am pretty sure I breathe a lot of. And while it's true that ...
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Good friend still prefers Cosmo to reading this blog, despite its revolutionary potential

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A very good friend has confirmed that she still prefers Cosmopolitan magazine to reading this blog, even in spite of the likely role it wil...
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Monday, May 16, 2011

My bus driver is not doing enough to affirm my faith in the common man

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Needless to say, I've been using public transportation ever since I first got interested in the common man. And, rest assured, most bus...
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Friday, May 13, 2011

The spectre of communism still haunts me, after all these years

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Sometimes I feel like I've been waiting forever for the new communism to come out. That's going to be the one where everyone gets f...
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Thursday, May 12, 2011

The destination of a dick

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For some, this will be a repost of something Blogger ate two weeks ago. -- JRB The guys from the Jersey Shore bring back memories of juni...
Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Things bring us together

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Because there's really nothing entertaining about me, on a given day, after any o'clock AM, the whole PM side of things can look pr...
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Remembering your life

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Lately I've been thinking about the general, so-called "dominant" culture as something of a disaster for interpersonal relatio...
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Friday, May 06, 2011

Social authority

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At one level, you can watch how the cast of the Jersey Shore interact with each other. In what ways do they try to tell each other what to...
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Thursday, May 05, 2011

Thug life

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Even where professionalization filters some anti-social tendencies out, it's only doing so for the purpose of capital accumulation. The...
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Wednesday, May 04, 2011

Thugs in the club

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Funny you should mention it, US foreign policy is a lot like the boys who go clubbing on the Jersey Shore . Both begin with the premise th...
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