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Division of labour only becomes truly such from the moment when a division of material and mental labour appears.          Karl Marx, The German Ideology Today the acolytes of Radical politics have themselves ascended to the heavenly realm of “pure” theory, theology, philosophy, ethics, etc. From their imitation Ivory towers they pontificate about the moral state of the world, the failures of Capitalism, the oppression of the poor, and the return of the proletarian Messiah. What form will He take, they enquire? "From the middle east upon a dinghy", say some. Yet others say, "he must be made, in our image". More say, "The Messiah is a Black Woman!" or, "Women in general!" "our academics will know!", and "Ooooh Jeremiah Corning!!!", say the rest. And quietly, alone, in a rare break from work, a young, working class man boots up the computer in his small rented room, and proceeds to express his anger, disappointment and de...
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"Last night was great. Thanks." "Mmm it was nice" For one estate to be par excellence the estate of liberation, another estate must conversely be the obvious estate of oppression.    ~Karl Marx, Contribution to a critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right "I'm glad I met you at the demo." Says a young man. "Yeah it's been a few years." Says a young woman as he fumbles around the bedroom floor looking for his clothes. "Good times, everything was simpler then." "We were only young, it was still fucked we just had less idea how badly." "7million were in London then, protesting, standing up together, for what was right... ...it was the fucking end of the Liber Party when they declared war on Iraq with Greg Brush and Team America" "Well it wasn't, they carried on for 7 more years." "Yeah and i'd wager they'd have launched war on Iran, Syria and Russia by now if they'd retained ...
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    Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.                                           ~ Marx, a Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right Groups of protestors shuffle through the streets holding signs and chanting slogans. There are protests taking place all over the country. People on splatter are asking, "why is there no media coverage?" "It looks like the government is on the ropes, the media has been hammering the chancellors recent decision to pay out to the richest members of society." "If they start showing thousands of people protesting it may have serious repercussions" suggests a government a...
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  trade-union consciousness the limited, sectionalist, less than revolutionary, social-democratic consciousness which, according to Lenin, the working class spontaneously develops from the narrow ‘conviction that it is necessary to combine in unions, fight employers and strive to compel governments to pass legislation’ ( LENIN , 1902). Since these ameliorative objectives serve to impede working-class unity and ensure subservience to bourgeois ideology, the theoretical and philosophical insights of intellectuals are necessary for the development of class consciousness. This thesis has influenced subsequent debates about TRADE UNIONS in capitalist societies. see also CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS . Collins Dictionary of Sociology, 3rd ed.   A man is giving a lecture in a small room in a humdrum town in England. He points to various diagrams on a white board, and talks about forms of resistance he wants to see applied against the "media monopoly on information". The diagrams...
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