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In Praise of Idleness Bertrand Russell Like most of my generation, I was brought up on the saying: 'Satan finds some mischief for idle hands to do.' Being a highly virtuous child, I believed all that I was told, and acquired a conscience which has kept me working hard down to the present moment. But although my conscience has controlled my actions, my opinions have undergone a …

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PREFACE The first version of this translation of The Society of the Spectacle was completed and posted online at my "Bureau of Public Secrets" website in 2002. The first print version was published by Rebel Press (London) in 2004 and several other editions were subsequently published in various print and digital formats. Meanwhile I continued to fine-tune the version on my website. Although I ...

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The contrast with the new Paris that was emerging and threatening to engulf the old was dramatic. The tall building "giants" around the Place d'Italie were threatening to invade the old city and clasp the hand of that awful Tour Montparnasse. The proposed expressway down the Left Bank, the soulless high-rise public housing (HLMs) out …

Jul 19, 2015 · A brief history of the collaboration between the Black Panthers and its white counterpart Young Patriot Organisation in Chicago.

Robin D. G. Kelley Aime Cesaire's Discourse on Colonialism might be best described as a declaration of war. I would almost cal it a "third world manifesto," but hesitate because it is primarily a polemic against the old order bereft of the kind of propositions and proposals that generally accompany manifestos. Yet, Discourse speaks in revolutionary ca dences, capturing the spirit of its age ...

Jan 13, 2023 · At the level of everyday life, this intervention would be translated as a better allocation of its elements and its instants as "moments," so as to intensify the vital productivity of everydayness, its capacity for communication, for information, and also and above all for pleasure in natural and social life. The theory of moments, then, is …

Peter Kropotkin's analysis of the Paris Commune, a defining moment in revolutionary history which inspired both Marxist and Anarchist revolutionaries for many years afterwards, and warrants continued attention today The original English version appeared as Freedom Pamphlets, no. 2, London: W. Reeves, 1895, based on the original French version published in Le Révolté, March 20, 1880. This ...