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From the Medici of Florence and the Fuggers of Augsburg to the Rothschilds of Paris and London and the Morgans of New York, bankers have sat in the councils of governments, financing wars and popes, and occasionally sparking a revolution. __Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, they know that history is inflationary, and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.__
The Lessons of History
Will Durant
People who are regimented all their lives, handed to work from school and bracketed by the family in the beginning and the nursing home in the end, are habituated to hierarchy and psychologically enslaved. Their aptitude for autonomy is so atrophied that their fear of freedom is among their few rationally grounded phobias.
The Abolition of Work
Bob Black
The movement to make Black lives matter does not deny that racism exists for other nonwhite peoples, nor does it say that white people don’t matter. Rather, the #BlackLivesMatter movement points out that the experiences of Black people with the police in the United States provides the sharpest and clearest view for understanding how racism and white supremacy operate institutionally and in our day-to-day experiences. To put it a bit differently, __if we want to understand the realities of racism and police violence, the relatively privileged and shielded perspectives of white people will yield us less sharp, less clear, and less truthful perspectives on how the police operate to support institutionalized racism and white supremacy.__ In this way, rather than a call for a form of relativism, a standpoint is perhaps better conceived as a tool that allows, following Hartsock, for “the creation of better (more objective, more liberatory) accounts of the world.”
A Marxist Education
Wayne Au
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