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you should know better than that which maims youframes you and aims totame you should know betterthan that which came before in a desperate plea to fameshame is a useful feeling anger too – but not so muchthat it leaves you reelingand out of touch

“…the next revolution, if it is guided by Socialist principle, must necessarily drive them to Communism, and Communism drive them to Anarchy.” The Necessity of Communism – Freedom (1887)

“We are thus forced to recognize that each individual, while remaining totally free in his actions, can only act in common, and by this very fact … Anarchy and Communism – Le Drapeau Noir (1883)

“She was married, true; but if one’s husband was always sailing round Cape Horn, was it marriage? If one liked him, was it marriage? If one liked other people, was it marriage? And finally, if one still wished, more than anything in the whole world, to write poetry, was it marriage? She had her doubts.”Continue reading “An Errant Quotation”

The spectacle is the existing order’s uninterrupted discourse about itself, its laudatory monologue. It is the self-portrait of power in the epoch of its totalitarian management of the conditions of existence. — Read on http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm

you know what your problem is?you need everyone to be exactly like youthe most toxic unforgiving love is the one that can’t move across differencewe peeped it and you the most unforgiving typa niggaleave the hatin’ middle school clique-ass bullshit in the past you GROWNleave me alone

we want black powerwe want black powerwe want black power we want black powerwe want black powerwe want black power want black power we want black power we want black powerwe want black power we want black powerwe want black power we want black power we want black power we want black powerwe want blackContinue reading “Turé’s Ghost”

I bring the fraternal greetings of a country covering 274,000 square kilometres, where 7 million men, women and children refuse henceforth to die of ignorance, hunger and thirst, even though they are not yet able to have a real life, after a quarter of a century as a sovereign State represented here at the UnitedContinue reading “Thomas Sankara (1984): Speech Before the General Assembly of the United Nations.”

no one is coming to take yourprecious little nucleus, okay?we just wanna live another waywhere is the proof?where is the puddin’?scenes of mayhem and haw and hee and look holook hi and loand behold seethe train trackson my back on my sleeveis my life andi sigh cuz why?don’t say don’t go only say hello

Fish-Woman broke the surface of the Pacific Ocean at 4:12 AM, just missing a passing schooner. As it was drifting away, a man on the ship thought he saw something, almost human, bubbling up. Huh, he thought, and thought no more.     Fish-Woman’s lungs, crystalline and fossilized from years of dis-use, began to crack open.Continue reading “Fish-Woman”