[b]Leon Trotsky
Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.[/b]
Imagine then his reaction to Trumpworld. Or Vladimir Putin.
…capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.
You know, until the workers of the world unite.
The bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of its class consciousness, is vitally interested in imposing its moral philosophy upon the exploited masses. It is exactly for this purpose that the concrete norms of the bourgeois catechism are concealed under moral abstractions…The appeal to abstract norms is not a disinterested philosophic mistake but a necessary element in the mechanics of class deception.
You might even say that, by now, they’ve perfected it.
Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
You tell me: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobin_(politics
Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory!
Or: Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Third Reich. It is the banner of your approaching victory!
The rest is history.
If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one’s life, without seeing oneself in the “mirror” of literature?
I promise not to ask you what that means if you promise not to tell me.