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__What would you read to someone who was dying?__ Annie Dillard had asked our class. She wanted this to be the standard for our work. There, at the memorial service for my friend, I thought of another: __Dying, what stories would you tell?__
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
Alexander Chee
If a political party and/or its leadership also controls other organisations or movements - such as unions or community organisations – they will not only betray the revolution in parliament, but further disarm and disempower movements outside the state.
Seizing existing state power is therefore not only ineffective, counter-productive, and a diversion of resources away from more useful forms of struggle; it actively harms the prospects for positive social change long-term.
Prefigurative Politics
Paul Raekstad and Sofia Saio Gradin
Marx also points out that distribution and production are also not unconnected.
Distribution according to the most superficial interpretation is distribution of products; it is thus removed further from production and made quasi-independent of it. But before distribution becomes distribution of products, it is (1) distribution of the means of production, and (2) (which is another aspect of the same situation) distribution of the members of society among the various types of production (the subsuming of the individuals under definite relations of production).
It’s Caste, Stupid
Kuffir
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