Bread & Roses

"If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience." - Mao Zedong"I wanted a roof for every family, bread for every mouth, education for every heart, light for every intellect. I am convinced that the human history has not yet begun--that we find ourselves in the last period of the prehistoric. I see with the eyes of my soul how the sky is diffused with rays of the new millennium." - Bartolomeo Vanzetti"It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but their social existence that determines their consciousness." ---Marx’s intoduction to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy"What perished in the Soviet Union was Marxist only in the sense that the Inquisition was Christian." - Preface to the Routledge Classics Edition 2002 "Marxism and Literary Theory" by Terry Eagleton“Much like the alcoholic, the racist in recovery takes responsibility for his or her participation in a system in which he or she has benefited and pledges to practice being a non-racist through actively disrupting racism rather than passive disengagement. And like the alcoholic it is one step, one day at a time.” - Molly Secours"Confronted with the artificial and murderous division of the world into two—a disjunction named by the very term, 'the West'—we must affirm the existence of the single world right from the start, as axiom and principle. The simple phrase, 'there is only one world', is not an objective conclusion. It is performative: we are deciding that this is how it is for us. Faithful to this point, it is then a question of elucidating the consequences that follow from this simple declaration." - Alain Badiou