“The bourgeois idealists realize that the larger becomes the section of exploited people who take part in active political struggles, the more acute will these struggles become; and all the more reason will there be for misgivings about the fate of capitalism.” – Claudia Jones
Category Archives: Lit Review
signs and signals ii
I AM BLACK AND I AM NOT A JOKE SHIPPING RECEIVING CAUTION!UCRYBEFORE STR8 NOMASS UTTLE BUSES VERYGANGSTERWE’RE HIRINGPUNKSWE’RE HIRINGBUS DRIVERSQUE HACERENFRENTE DEUN ESTADOASESINO?
o pacific
o pacifichold me tonight if you cano l d o n ehold me me me m e o pacific hold me tonight if you cano l d o n e
Millennials Are Killing Capitalism: “I Felt Like We Had Been Bamboozled In That Integrationist Moment” – Mary Helen Washington on Gwendolyn Brooks and The Other Blacklist
In this conversation we specifically focus on the work of Gwendolyn Brooks prior to her joining the Black Arts Movement in the late 1960’s, within the Black cultural and literary left that Washington analyzes in The Other Blacklist. — Read on millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/i-felt-like-we-had-been-bamboozled-in-that-integrationist-moment-mary-helen-washington-on-gwendolyn-brooks-and-the-other-blacklist
Quote of the Week – June 29
“The United States Military is arguably the largest force of ecological devastation the world has ever known.” –Xoài Pham
questions iii
how to keep it pushing in the face of imminent doom? i’m actually asking how to keep my equilibrium when the climate can’t? how to keep my cool when youse testing me? how to do what it do when it needs done? how to slow my roll and have fun? lmk
ellipsis
ellipsis go-between loop soup lilting lacerations harmonizing harms sewing scars grassing gashes blending burns
so so wonderful
blinkered lights went offi was softened by the night’s blanketstolen off the porch and brought back to bed astro black midnight blueshues of me and youcentral park green verdigris of the seathe blue the black the bruising nightthe red the red the red red light selah selah selahsay what time is itsay what time isContinue reading “so so wonderful”
MLK, “Beyond Vietnam,” 1967
I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government…. — Read on web.mit.edu/21h.102/www/Primary source collections/Civil Rights/Beyond_Vietnam.htm
apsis of luv
the apsis of love how far and how close can we be? perihelion yr proximity means nuthin’ in this hemisphere a cold shoulder a close turn aphelion yr heart on the outskirts or perhaps my orbit you are so very far this is when we truly burn for your return return return
Aida Rends 