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At a certain point, routine becomes self-destructive, because human beings lose control over their own efforts; lack of control over work time means people go dead mentally.
The Corrosion of Character
Richard Sennett
__Often the road to politics is through culture.__ It was, for example, the 1976 persecution of the Czech band The Plastic People of the Universe that sparked Charter 77, the defiant manifesto issued on the New Year, some of whose signatories were key players in 1989. “It was not a bolt out of the blue, of course,” wrote Charter signatory and playwright Vaclav Havel long before he became president of a postcommunist Czechoslovakia, “but that impression is understandable, since the ferment that led to it took place in the ‘hidden sphere,’ in that semi-darkness where things are difficult to chart or analyze. The chances of predicting the appearance of the Charter were just as slight as the chances are now of predicting where it will lead.”
Hope in the Dark
Rebecca Solnit
Because non-profits are funded in large part by corporations (with foundations as mere intermediaries), they can’t afford to seriously question capitalism, so class issues are always relegated to the background.
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded
Incite!
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