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Notices by deutrino (deutrino@mstdn.io), page 4

  1. Herodotus Machiavelli Livy (hmlivy@dobbs.town)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2019 10:12:44 EDT Herodotus Machiavelli Livy Herodotus Machiavelli Livy
    • Matt
    • ʀᴇᴠᴇʀᴇɴᴅ ꜱʜɪᴛʟᴏʀᴅ :jrbd:

    @mindnmotion @Shitlord

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    A generalized method for re-identifying people in "anonymized" data-sets
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  3. Protestation (English) (protestation@freeradical.zone)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2019 11:31:12 EDT Protestation (English) Protestation (English)

    Noam Chomsky: The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate. https://protestationblog.wordpress.com/quotes5/#quotenr6894

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      English quotes 5
      By Protestation from Protestation

      • The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Without settlement, we will not fulfill Zionism. It’s that simple. (Yizhak Shamir)

      • Since 1967 it has become obvious that political Zionism has one monolithic aim: Maximum land in Palestine with a minimum of Palestinians on it. This aim is pursued with an inexcusable cruelty as demonstrated during the assault on Gaza. The cruelty is explicitly formulated in the Dahiye doctrine of the military and morally supported by the Holocaust religion. I am pained by the parallels I observe between my experiences in Germany prior to 1939 and those suffered by Palestinians today. I cannot help but hear echoes of the Nazi mythos of “blood and soil” in the rhetoric of settler fundamentalism which claims a sacred right to all the lands of biblical Judea and Samaria. The various forms of collective punishment visited upon the Palestinian people — coerced ghettoization behind a “security wall”; the bulldozing of homes and destruction of fields; the bombing of schools, mosques, and government buildings; an economic blockade that deprives people of the water, food, medicine, education and the basic necessities for dignified survival — force me to recall the deprivations and humiliations that I experienced in my youth. This century-long process of oppression means unimaginable suffering for Palestinians. (Hajo Meyer)

      • Imperialism is a specific historical stage of capitalism. Its specific character is threefold: imperialism is monopoly capitalism; parasitic, or decaying capitalism; moribund capitalism. The supplanting of free competition by monopoly is the fundamental economic feature, the quintessence of imperialism. Monopoly manifests itself in five principal forms: (1) cartels, syndicates and trusts—the concentration of production has reached a degree which gives rise to these monopolistic associations of capitalists; (2) the monopolistic position of the big banks—three, four or five giant banks manipulate the whole economic life of America, France, Germany; (3) seizure of the sources of raw material by the trusts and the financial oligarchy (finance capital is monopoly industrial capital merged with bank capital); (4) the (economic) partition of the world by the international cartels has begun. There are already over one hundred such international cartels, which command the entire world market and divide it “amicably” among themselves—until war redivides it. The export of capital, as distinct from the export of commodities under non-monopoly capitalism, is a highly characteristic phenomenon and is closely linked with the economic and territorial-political partition of the world; (5) the territorial partition of the world (colonies) is completed. (Lenin)

      • Ur-Fascism can come back under the most innocent of disguises. Our duty is to uncover it and point the finger at any of its new instances — every day and in every part of the world. (Umberto Eco)

      • Who are the people? At the present stage in China, they are the working class, the peasantry, the urban petty bourgeoisie and the national bourgeoisie. These classes, led by the working class and the Communist Party, unite to form their own state and elect their own government; they enforce their dictatorship over the running dogs of imperialism — the landlord class and bureaucrat-bourgeoisie, as well as the representatives of those classes, the Kuomintang reactionaries and their accomplices — suppress them, allow them only to behave themselves and not to be unruly in word or deed. If they speak or act in an unruly way, they will be promptly stopped and punished. Democracy is practiced within the ranks of the people, who enjoy the rights of freedom of speech, assembly, association and so on. The right to vote belongs only to the people, not to the reactionaries. The combination of these two aspects, democracy for the people and dictatorship over the reactionaries, is the people’s democratic dictatorship. (Mao Zedong)

      • The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society. (Clara Zetkin)

      • Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him, and the doors of the nations which are closed must be battered down… Concessions obtained by financiers must be safeguarded by ministers of state, even if the sovereignty of unwilling nations be outraged in the process. Colonies must be obtained or planted, in order that no useful corner of the world may be overlooked or left unused. (Thomas Woodrow Wilson)

      • It is sometimes possible to change the attitudes of millions but impossible to change the attitude of one man. (Edward Bernays)

      • The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest. (Edward Bernays)

      • Bourgeois society is continually producing politicians who love to assert they belong to no class, and opportunists who love to call themselves socialists, both of whom deliberately and systematically deceive the masses with the most florid and “radical” words. In times of crisis, however even well-meaning participants therein very often reveal a discrepancy between word and deed. The great and progressive significance of all crises, even the gravest, most arduous and painful, lies in the tremendous speed, force and clarity with which they expose and sweep aside rotten phrases, even if well meaning, and rotten institutions even if they are built on the best of intentions. (Lenin)

      • The workers have taken it into their heads that they, with their busy hands, are the necessary, and the rich capitalists, who do nothing, the surplus population. (Friedrich Engels)

      • The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. (Albert Einstein)

      • Principle of simplification and the single enemy. Adopt a single idea, a single Symbol; Individualizing the adversary into a single enemy. (Joseph Goebbels)

      • In Petrograd, here in Moscow, and in other cities and industrial centres, proletarian women showed up splendidly during the revolution. We would not have won without them, or hardly. That is my opinion. What courage they showed and how courageous they still are! (Lenin)

      • I found that the period of Soviet history with Stalin at the head has been completely distorted. Not just ‘a mistake here and there’, but basically a massive fraud, the biggest lie of the century. (Grover Furr)

      • The dictatorship of the proletariat, the transition from capitalism to communism, must not be regarded as a fleeting period of “super-revolutionary” acts and decrees, but as an entire historical era, replete with civil wars and external conflicts, with persistent organisational work and economic construction, with advances and retreats, victories and defeats. (Stalin)

      • If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. (Bertrand Russell)

      • A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another. (Mao Zedong)

      • No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. (Barbara Ehrenreich)

      • We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers. (Emmeline Pankhurst)

      • A revolution is not a trail of roses.… A revolution is a fight to the death between the future and the past. (Fidel Castro)

      • The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION. (Eugene V. Debs)

      • Fascism is capitalism in decay. (Lenin)

      • But every class struggle is a political struggle. (Karl Marx)

      • Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • Our freedom must be had at all hazards. If the men of property will not help us they must fall. (Wolfe Tone)

      • An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters. (Henry Clay)

      • To tell the truth is revolutionary. (Gramsci)

      • A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run. (Elbert Hubbard)

      • If you stop struggling, then you stop life. (Huey P. Newton)

      • The privileged class can never be overturned peacefully. (Johann Most)

      • I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people. (Huey P. Newton)

      • Historically, the most terrible things – war, genocide, and slavery – have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience. (Howard Zinn)

      • Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top. (Booker T. Washington)

      • The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. (W. E. B. Du Bois)

      • Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts. (Dario Fo)

      • Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought. (Kwame Nkrumah)

      • Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact, it screens the non-freedom and inferiority of women, the non-freedom and inferiority of the toilers and exploited. (Lenin)

      • Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. (Albert Einstein)

      • Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Indeed it is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. (General Douglas MacArthur)

      • The bourgeoisie are today evading taxation by bribery and through their connections; we must close all loopholes. (Lenin)

      • It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power. (John Adams)

      • We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. (Plátōn)

      • When men are able to influence so many others through their life and their example, they do not die. (Aleida Guevara March)

      • Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds. (Albert Einstein)

      • A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

      • In America, the criminally insane rule and the rest of us, or the vast majority of the rest of us, either do not care, do not know, or are distracted and properly brainwashed into acquiescence. (Kurt Nimmo)

      • The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. (Henry Louis Mencken)

      • Unless you become more watchful in your States and check this spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that the most important powers of Government have been given or bartered away, and the control of your dearest interests have been passed into the hands of these corporations. (Andrew Jackson)

      • Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. (Siddhārtha Gautama)

      • There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity. (Goethe)

      • Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. (George Washington)

      • The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. (Edmund Burke)

      • War is the continuation of Politik by other means. (Carl von Clausewitz)

      • If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and ‘with malice toward none and charity for all’ go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • The world became more aware that America-despite being the hope of many who have the personal drive and ambition to become part of the “American dream”-is beset by serious operational challenges: a massive and growing national debt, widening social inequality, a cornucopian culture that worships materialism, a financial system given to greedy speculation, and a polarized political system. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win. (Henry Kissinger)

      • A popular method always used by the bourgeois press in every country with unerring effect is to lie, scream, raise a hullabaloo, and keep on reiterating lies on the off-chance that “something may stick”. (Lenin)

      • … the most formidable military machine depends ultimately on the obedience of its soldiers, … the most powerful corporation becomes helpless when its workers stop working, when its customers refuse to buy its products. The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex social structure-these remain potent weapons against the most fearsome state or corporate power. (Howard Zinn)

      • One does not have to be a Marxist to know there is something very wrong in this society. (Michael Parenti)

      • Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. (Karl Marx)

      • In the 1950s and 1960s we put several thousand nuclear weapons into Europe. To be sure, we had no precise idea of what to do with them. (Henry Kissinger)

      • Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians. (Che Guevara)

      • Not even the dead can rest in peace in an oppressed country. (Fidel Castro)

      • There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself. (Sir William Pitt)

      • And one day we must ask the question, ‘Why are there forty million poor people in America? And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth.’ When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy. And I’m simply saying that more and more, we’ve got to begin to ask questions about the whole society. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state. (Lenin)

      • If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered… I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies… The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • The bourgeois intellectuals, including the Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries, are true to themselves in serving capital and in continuing to use absolutely false arguments. (Lenin)

      • Aside from the few who have jobs or professions, the women of the bourgeoisie do not take part in social production. They are nothing but co-consumers of the surplus value their men extort from the proletariat. They are parasites of the parasites of the social body. And consumers are usually even more rabid and cruel in defending their “right” to a parasite’s life than the direct agents of class rule and exploitation. The history of all great revolutionary struggles confirms this in a horrible way. Take the great French Revolution. After the fall of the Jacobins, when Robespierre was driven in chains to the place of execution the naked whores of the victory-drunk bourgeoisie danced in the streets, danced a shameless dance of joy around the fallen hero of the Revolution. And in 1871, in Paris, when the heroic workers’ Commune was defeated by machine guns, the raving bourgeois females surpassed even their bestial men in their bloody revenge against the suppressed proletariat. The women of the property-owning classes will always fanatically defend the exploitation and enslavement of the working people by which they indirectly receive the means for their socially useless existence. (Rosa Luxemburg)

      • Won’t let anyone speak badly of Stalin. Russia, today is still living on borrowed time thanks to his vision. (Daniel Estulin)

      • The working class must first take possession of the organised political power of the state and by its aid crush the resistance of the capitalist class and organise society anew. (Friedrich Engels)

      • The state is the executive committee of the ruling class. (Karl Marx)

      • American capitalism, based as it is on exploitation of the poor, with its fundamental motivation in personal greed, simply cannot survive without force – without a secret police force. Now, more than ever, each of us is forced to make a conscious choice whether to support the system of minority comfort and privilege with all its security apparatus and repression, or whether to struggle for real equality of opportunity and fair distribution of benefits for all of society, in the domestic as well as the international order. It’s harder now not to realize that there are two sides, harder not to understand each, and harder not to recognize that like it or not we contribute day in and day out either to the one side or to the other. (Philip Agee)

      • We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • … the United States [is] cast in the role of Praetorian Guard, protecting the interests of the global financial order against fractious elements in the Third World. (John Stockwell)

      • A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. (Joseph Pulitzer)

      • An elective despotism was not the government we fought for. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds. (Samuel Adams)

      • There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself. (Daniel K. Inouye)

      • If they do it it’s terrorism, if we do it, it’s fighting for freedom. (Anthony Quainton)

      • It is not power that corrupts but fear. The fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it, and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it. (Aung San Suu Kyi)

      • When do these corporations begin to lose their credibility? They fought Social Security, Medicare, auto safety. They fought every social justice movement in this country. (Ralph Nader)

      • It is only when a society shares caring values that its people can feel secure. (Michael Lerner)

      • The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum – even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate. (Noam Chomsky)

      • We are witnessing an unprecedented transfer of power from people and their governments to global institutions whose allegiance is to abstract free-market principle, and whose favored citizens are soulless corporate entities that have the power to shape and break nations. (Joel Bleifuss)

      • I’ve been around the ruling class all my life, and I’ve been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country. (Gore Vidal)

      • For us there is no valid definition of socialism other than the abolition of the exploitation of one human being by another. (Che Guevara)

      • Red Rosa now has vanished too. Where she lies is hid from view. She told the poor what life is about. And so now the rich have rubbed her out. (Epitaph 1919 – poem about Luxemburg after she was killed by right-wing death squads in 1919) (Bertolt Brecht)

      • You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. (Abraham Lincoln)

      • Inequality can be done away with only by establishing a new society, where men and women will enjoy equal rights…Thus, the status of women will improve only with the elimination of the system that exploits them. (Thomas Sankara)

      • The unsuspecting Britons spoke of such novelties as ‘civilisation,’ when in fact they were only a feature of their enslavement. (Cornelius Tacitus)

      • It is perhaps difficult for white South Africans, with an ingrained prejudice against communism, to understand why experienced African politicians so readily accept communists as their friends. But to us the reason is obvious. Theoretical differences, amongst those fighting against oppression, is a luxury which cannot be afforded. What is more, for many decades communists were the only political group in South Africa who were prepared to treat Africans as human beings and as their equals; who were prepared to eat with us; talk with us, live with us, and work with us. They were the only political group which was prepared to work with the Africans for the attainment of political rights and a stake in society. Because of this, there are many Africans who today tend to equate freedom with communism. (Nelson Mandela)

      • Kautsky has made increasingly rapid progress in this art of being a Marxist in words and a lackey of the bourgeoisie in deeds, until he has become a virtuoso at it. (Lenin)

      • A revolution not guided by a correct idea, theory and method is doomed to go off course and wander like a ship without a compass. (Kim Jong-il)

      • Stalin does not seek honours. He loathes pomp. He is averse to public displays. He could have all the nominal regalia in the chest of a great state. But he prefers the background. (Issac Don Levine)

      • I could have gone on flying through space forever. (Yuri Gagarin)

      • Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value: zero. (Voltaire)

      • In the form that it emerged at the turn of the century and developed in the 1920s and 1930s, the fascist ideology represented a synthesis of organic nationalism with the antimaterialist revision of Marxism. (Zeev Sternhell)

      • If by free market one means a market that is autonomous and spontaneous, free from political controls, then there is no such thing as a free market at all. It is simply a myth. (Antonio Negri)

      • To fasten on the facts while forgetting the social content is to fall prey to a mystifying immediacy. In an antagonistic society, appearance and essence, immediacy and mediacy, diverge; things are not what they seem to be. (Russell Jacoby)

      • The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

      • The so-called Great Powers have long been exploiting and enslaving a whole number of small and weak nations. And the imperialist war is a war for the division and redivision of this kind of booty. (Lenin)

      • We say: our aim is to achieve a socialist system of society, which, by eliminating the division of mankind into classes, by eliminating all exploitation of man by man and nation by nation, will inevitably eliminate the very possibility of war. (Lenin)

      • They cripple the bird’s wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they. (Malcolm X)

      • Marxism is always moving, is always growing. It is the exact opposite of a ready-made, fixed body of dogmas as its enemies always present it. It cannot be that because it is an interpretation of the real world. The real world is always changing and moving, and therefore the theory has always to develop with the development of the real world. Marxism can never stand still. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Trotsky’s “permanent revolution” was a project of the British Empire. (Daniel Estulin)

      • Look at the history of the revolutionary movement, and you will find more than one connection between imperialism and those who take positions that appear to be on the extreme left. (Fidel Castro)

      • You have to make clear that it’s social democratic bullshit to claim that imperialism along with all the Neubauers and Westmorelands, Bonn, the senate, the State Youth Welfare Office and district offices, that the whole filth can be undermined, duped, overpowered, intimidated, and eliminated without a fight. Make it clear that the revolution will not be an Easter stroll. (Gudrun Ensslin)

      • [The] Soviet government is the expression of the most complete and most fully developed democracy. At the same time, it is the expression of the dictatorship of the working class, which secures the very possibility of democracy for the people. Soviet democracy and proletarian dictatorship are two aspects of one and the same phenomenon. (Andrei Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky)

      • Why can the rulers of the most advanced “civilised” capitalist states offer to the people nothing but unlimited barbarism, destruction, economic chaos, spreading famine and disease, terror and slaughter? (R. Palme Dutt)

      • For all arms with which to fight must be drawn from society as it is and the fatal conditions of this struggle have the misfortune of not being easily adapted to the idealistic fantasies which these doctors in social science have exalted as divinities, under the names of Freedom, Autonomy, Anarchy. (Karl Marx)

      • And the most important thing in all this is that Social-Democracy is the main channel of imperialist pacifism within the working class — consequently, it is capitalism’s main support among the working class in preparing for new wars and intervention. (Stalin)

      • The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching (plan), nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. (Carroll Quigley)

      • When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will. (Frédéric Bastiat)

      • When the modern corporation acquires power over markets, power in the community, power over the state and power over belief, it is a political instrument, different in degree but not in kind from the state itself. To hold otherwise — to deny the political character of the modern corporation — is not merely to avoid the reality. It is to disguise the reality. The victims of that disguise are those we instruct in error. The beneficiaries are the institutions whose power we so disguise. Let there be no question: economics, so long as it is thus taught, becomes, however unconsciously, a part of the arrangement by which the citizen or student is kept from seeing how he or she is, or will be, governed. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

      • For it was after Stalin that the Russian state began to fall into its present state of decay. (Huey P. Newton)

      • Fascism aims at the most unbridled exploitation of the masses, but it approaches them with the most artful anti-capitalist demagogy, taking advantage of the deep hatred of the working people against the plundering bourgeoisie, the banks, trusts and financial magnates, and advancing those slogans which at the given moment are most alluring to the politically immature masses. (Georgi Dimitrov)

      • Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome! (Fidel Castro)

      • Central to all the disquisitions of the self-determination opponents is the claim that it is generally “unachievable” under capitalism or imperialism. (Lenin)

      • The cause of Communism is the greatest cause in the history of mankind, because it seeks to remove from society all forms of oppression and exploitation to liberate mankind, and to ensure peace and prosperity to all. (Nelson Mandela)

      • To become the ruling class and defeat the bourgeoisie for good the proletariat must be schooled, because the skill this implies does not come ready-made. The proletariat must do its learning in the struggle, and stubborn, desperate struggle in earnest is the only meal teacher. The greater the extremes of the exploiters’ resistance, the more vigorously, firmly, ruthlessly and successfully will they be suppressed by the exploited. The more varied the exploiters’ attempts to uphold the old, the sooner will the proletariat learn to ferret out its enemies from their last nook and corner, to pull up the roots of their domination, and cut the very ground which could (and had to) breed wage-slavery, mass poverty and the profiteering and effrontery of the money-bags. (Lenin)

      • Socialism or barbarism! (Rosa Luxemburg)

      • This vagueness and ambiguity of conventional common places to describe its basic aims is not accidental in Fascism, but inherent and inevitable. This terminology is the standard vague and deceitful terminology of all capitalist parties to cover the realities of class-rule and class-exploitation under empty phrases of “the community,” “the national welfare,” “the State above classes,” etc. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Principle of renewal. It is necessary to constantly issue new information and arguments at a rate such that when the adversary responds the public is already interested in something else. The adversary’s responses should never be able to counteract the increasing level of accusations. (Joseph Goebbels)

      • The British ruling class are not fighting to liberate the people of Europe from fascism and reaction. They have always been, for a century and a-half, the main stranglers of every popular revolution in every country. The war aims of Churchill, for which the British workers; are asked to die, are the war aims of British imperialism; to protect and maintain the domination of the British Empire over a-quarter of the world; to smash the rival German imperialism and inflict a new super-Versailles; to maintain the reactionary interests of capitalist class rule against the world Socialist Revolution. There is nothing they fear more than a real popular revolution in Europe, which they know would lead to the victory of Socialism. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • There can be no real and effective “freedom” in a society based on the power of money, in a society in which the masses of working people live in poverty and the handful of rich live like parasites. (Lenin)

      • Thereby I state that we are extremely interested in not letting eastern nations unite. On the contrary, we must spit them into small groups and branches. As for separate nations, we are not going to allow them to get closer and bigger, let alone allowing them to cultivate the sense of national identity and culture. Quite the contrary, we are concerned with splintering them into numerous small groups… (Heinrich Himmler)

      • If you throw a stone, it’s a crime. If a thousand stones are thrown, that’s political. If you set fire to a car it’s a crime; if a hundred cars are set on fire that’s political. (Ulrike Meinhof)

      • Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. (Frank Zappa)

      • I must add further that no programme is worthy the acceptance of the working classes that stops short of the abolition of private property in the means of production. Any other programme is misleading and dishonest… (William Morris)

      • Private property based on the labour of the small proprietor, free competition, democracy, all the catchwords with which the capitalists and their press deceive the workers and the peasants are things of the distant past. Capitalism has grown into a world system of colonial oppression and of the financial strangulation of the overwhelming majority of the population of the world by a handful of “advanced” countries. (Lenin)

      • I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept. (Angela Davis)

  4. deutrino (deutrino@mstdn.io)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2019 10:55:06 EDT deutrino deutrino

    Question for video experts: I have a pile of miniDV tapes, some of which I know were recorded on DVCAM devices. I need to get some sort of a used deck (or camera, whatever) such that I can import these on a Linux machine... I'm looking for hardware recommendations.

    This is a one-time deal. Quality is important, but I'm definitely on a budget. I'll take anything I can capture with good results... can't afford professional decks etc.

    In conversation Tuesday, 23-Jul-2019 10:55:06 EDT from mstdn.io permalink
  5. Mads "Magna Cinaeda" Viande (byttyrs@radical.town)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2019 10:59:59 EDT Mads "Magna Cinaeda" Viande Mads "Magna Cinaeda" Viande
    in reply to

    I'm skeptical that "human nature" exists as such, but if it does and we could theoretically discover its properties, we would still have huge methodological problems untangling "human nature" from external conditions.

    but selfish, brutal, grasping competition for short-term gain with no regard to common good or the long-term future? that's literally a direct product of capitalism. zero-sum profit-hoarding from underpaying exploited workers is the fundamental M.O. of the bourgeois/capitalist/owning class.

    the people whose wealth goes into printing educational materials have a vested interest in making their class-specific motives and behaviors disappear into the generality of "human nature." that's what 'false class consciousness' IS: the working class, duped into accepting the sins and values of their oppressors.

    In conversation Monday, 22-Jul-2019 10:59:59 EDT from radical.town permalink Repeated by deutrino
  6. Dr. Dan Killam (dantheclamman@scicomm.xyz)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2019 13:30:38 EDT Dr. Dan Killam Dr. Dan Killam

    Jessica Wade has added nearly 700 Wikipedia biographies for important female and minority scientists in less than two years.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/science/jess-wade-wikipedia-science-women.html

    In conversation Friday, 19-Jul-2019 13:30:38 EDT from scicomm.xyz permalink Repeated by deutrino
  7. check out my motherfucking radio (dtluna@leftlibertarian.club)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2019 03:00:18 EDT check out my motherfucking radio check out my motherfucking radio
    What's a good application to manage file associations (what file type is opened by which application) on Linux?
    In conversation Tuesday, 23-Jul-2019 03:00:18 EDT from leftlibertarian.club permalink Repeated by deutrino
  8. Stanislas (angristan@mstdn.io)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2019 03:19:23 EDT Stanislas Stanislas

    When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop https://slack.engineering/rebuilding-slack-on-the-desktop-308d6fe94ae4

    In conversation Tuesday, 23-Jul-2019 03:19:23 EDT from mstdn.io permalink Repeated by deutrino

    Attachments

    1. File without filename could not get a thumbnail source.
      When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop
      from Medium
      by Mark Christian and Johnny Rodgers
  9. ℹ️❤️🖥 aka Compy-chan (ilovecomputers@niu.moe)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2019 13:59:51 EDT ℹ️❤️🖥 aka Compy-chan ℹ️❤️🖥 aka Compy-chan

    Taking the train to Helsinki. Fuck this beats planes

    In conversation Saturday, 20-Jul-2019 13:59:51 EDT from niu.moe permalink Repeated by deutrino
  10. Infected Moomin (moonman@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2019 14:12:04 EDT Infected Moomin Infected Moomin
    :jolt_cola:
    In conversation Saturday, 20-Jul-2019 14:12:04 EDT from shitposter.club permalink Repeated by deutrino
  11. deutrino (deutrino@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2019 14:04:03 EDT deutrino deutrino
    • Fedilab

    @fedilab These people are beyond ridiculous at this point.

    In conversation Saturday, 20-Jul-2019 14:04:03 EDT from mstdn.io permalink
  12. deutrino (deutrino@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2019 14:03:22 EDT deutrino deutrino
    • BjarniBjarniBjarni 🙊 🇮🇸 🍏

    @HerraBRE YUP. 100% agree.

    In conversation Saturday, 20-Jul-2019 14:03:22 EDT from mstdn.io permalink
  13. deutrino (deutrino@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2019 13:39:04 EDT deutrino deutrino
    • BjarniBjarniBjarni 🙊 🇮🇸 🍏

    @HerraBRE Curation of one's feeds falls firmly in the self-care category. I've been muting with a particular focus on the self-righteous lately and it's helped a great deal.

    In conversation Saturday, 20-Jul-2019 13:39:04 EDT from mstdn.io permalink
  14. deutrino (deutrino@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2019 12:08:58 EDT deutrino deutrino

    I retract my earlier statement, for once the fail isn't the fault of Signal but rather because #microG disabled push messaging of its own accord. wat.

    In conversation Saturday, 20-Jul-2019 12:08:58 EDT from mstdn.io permalink
  15. deutrino (deutrino@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2019 10:16:40 EDT deutrino deutrino

    CanvasBlocker is the first extension I've seen with a functional icon on Firefox Mobile. (It blocks browser #fingerprinting)

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/canvasblocker/

    In conversation Saturday, 20-Jul-2019 10:16:40 EDT from mstdn.io permalink

    Attachments

    1. CanvasBlocker – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)
      Download CanvasBlocker for Firefox. Alters some JS APIs to prevent fingerprinting.
  16. Κάποιος Ταδόπουλος (wiesenthals@todon.nl)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2019 03:41:17 EDT Κάποιος Ταδόπουλος Κάποιος Ταδόπουλος

    Right-Wing Extremism Linked to Every 2018 Extremist Murder in the U.S.
    Right-wing extremists killed more people last year than in any year since 1995.
    http://bit.ly/2XSZ9Iq

    In conversation Saturday, 20-Jul-2019 03:41:17 EDT from todon.nl permalink Repeated by deutrino
  17. selfcare.tech (selfcare@botsin.space)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2019 09:36:34 EDT selfcare.tech selfcare.tech

    Go get a drink of water. Stay hydrated!

    In conversation Saturday, 20-Jul-2019 09:36:34 EDT from botsin.space permalink Repeated by deutrino
  18. Willow (salixlucida@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2019 04:16:38 EDT Willow Willow

    Los Angeles police spied on anti-Trump protesters
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/19/los-angeles-police-informant-anti-trump-activist-protest

    In conversation Saturday, 20-Jul-2019 04:16:38 EDT from mastodon.sdf.org permalink Repeated by deutrino

    Attachments

    1. Los Angeles police spied on anti-Trump protesters
      from the Guardian
      Case is one of several across the US of police targeting anti-Trump and anti-fascist groups with monitoring and criminal trials
  19. deutrino (deutrino@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2019 09:59:38 EDT deutrino deutrino

    It's 10am, temp is 86F (feels like 98F) :0point:

    In conversation Saturday, 20-Jul-2019 09:59:38 EDT from mstdn.io permalink
  20. Coffee & Aspirin (deejoe@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2019 08:43:35 EDT Coffee & Aspirin Coffee & Aspirin
    • Tomas SA2TMS

    @tomas

    make something up

    seriously, that's how OSM tagging works

    In conversation Saturday, 20-Jul-2019 08:43:35 EDT from mastodon.sdf.org permalink Repeated by deutrino
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