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not to mention the fact that your concept of “justice” is necessarily made problematic by your subjectivity and that your concept of care is, in fact, imposing an agenda

a social justice, a justice which represents the alignment of carer and cared in a social relationship, necessitates an alignment of agenda between them, an alignment which we might term solidarity

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if you (anarchist) have a theory which depends on loving and caring for every other person all the time in order to treat them justly i ain’t doing that

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when they make a take and you’re like “okay but what happens when this theory is applied to somebody i don’t give a shit about”

londoner: oh hey carl my man what are you doing here

karl marx: europe’s haunted

londoner: what?

karl marx: *loading a pistol and getting back on the ship* europe’s haunted

« The limits within which each can act without harming others is determined by law just as the boundary between two fields is marked by a stake. »

this happened in my dream and i just had to capture it

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*walks up to a girl with a ♥️ necklace; points at her chest* “so what’s that? some kind of inverted spade?”

“yeah, because i like having girls plow into me”

After she gives her
opinion, he gives her his
latest manuscript

checking the etiquette guide to see if i am allowed to be communist on this forum

i don't have a problem with the prequels but i do take issue with one of them being called Episode I when obviously a lot of stuff happened before

« On a visit to ILM in Van Nuys, Rice was instructed by Lucas to produce a logo that would intimidate the viewer, and he reportedly asked for the logo to appear "very fascist" in style. Rice's response to her brief was to use an outlined, modified Helvetica Black. » 😘

« But gods alone were never workmasters. The same is true of NATURE. »

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« In abstraction, however, and separated from the remaining sphere of human activities and turned into final and sole ends, they are animal functions. »

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« To be sure, eating, drinking, and procreation are genuine human functions. »

(thinking of ec.gc.ca right now, or Environment Canada dot Government of Canada dot Canada

thankfully this is now a redirect although it survives in email addresses)

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canadian government urls are like “this is six letters and four of them are canada”

« Apart from this mediation, objects lose their value. They have value only insofar as they REPRESENT it while originally it appeared that the mediation would have value only insofar as IT represents OBJECTS. »

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« The real law of the economic order is CONTINGENCY from which we scientists arbitrarily stabilize some aspects in the form of laws. »

however this is not to say that the freeing of the source code is not an important step, in that it weakens the hold of big business on technology and enables workers to organize separately

the important insight is that this freedom is merely a transitional stepping-point, not an end goal

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