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Journal Entry on Poetry 02/01/210

I told myself I'd learn to write more formal poetry in 2018 because free verse feels insuccificient and prose is a bore. So, what did I write today? An acrostic...

Three Poems

Three Poems I. Earth It is one thing to love your- self, quite another to grow. Fingerfew of topsoil & you remember the work of trees, that standing is proper t...

Communist Quote Of The Day

"Eve Being Seduced By The Serpent," Jheironymus Bosch (1450) From Theodor Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944): >"As naturally as the ruled always took th...

Communist Quote Of The Day

"Peach Blossom Spring" (detail), Qiu Yang (1530) From Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's What Is To Be Done?, from the chapter "Dogmatism and 'Freedom of Criticism'": >"We...

Communist Quote Of The Day

"Orfeu Nos Infernos," Guilherme de Santa-Rita (1904) From The Invisible Comittee's The Coming Insurrection (2007): >"Revolutionary movements do not spread by co...

Communist Quote Of The Day

"Mazzo di Fiori," Julius Evola (1918) From Amadeo Bordiga's 1952 "Marxism Of The Stammerers": >"There cannot exist in the future an economy which is still merca...

Communist Quote Of The Day

"Untitled (Blue divided by blue)," Mark Rothko (1966) From Rosa Luxemburg's The Russian Revolution(1918) : >“Freedom only for the supporters of the government, ...

Karl Marx Quote Of The Day

"Standing Male and Seated Female Nudes," Vincent van Gogh (1887) From Private Property and Communism (1848): >"The direct, natural, and necessary relation of pe...

Karl Marx Quote Of The Day

"Untitled," Gino Severini (1919) From Inaugural Address (1864): >"Like slave labor, like serf labor, hired labor is but a transitory and inferior form, destined...

Karl Marx Quote Of The Day

"Gettysburg Cyclorama" (detail), Paul Philippoteaux (1863) From Comments On The North American Events (1862): >"Lincoln is not the product of a popular revoluti...

Karl Marx Quote Of The Day

"Forgotten People," Godfrey Blow (1997) From Grundrisse (1857-8): >"In fact of course, this 'productive' worker cares as much about the crappy shit he has to ma...

Karl Marx Quote Of The Day

"Corpuscular Pond," Chicote CFC (2016) From The Communist Manifesto (1848): >"Law, morality, religion, are to [the proletarian] so many bourgeois prejudices, be...

Karl Marx Quote Of The Day

.jpg) "Battle Of Issus," Albrecht Altdorfer (1529) From The Abolition of Landed Property (1869): >"If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the fe...

Karl Marx Quote Of The Day

"Mammon," George Frederic Watts (1884-5) From the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, in the chapter titled "The Power of Money": >"If money is the bo...

Karl Marx Quote Of The Day

"Soliloquies: Joy," Makoto Fujimura (2009) From Das Kapital (1867), Vol. 1: > Capital is money, capital is commodities. … In truth, however, value is here the a...

Karl Marx Quote Of The Day

"(725-3)," Gerhard Richter (1990) From The Communist Manifesto (1848): >“All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices ...

Karl Marx Quote Of The Day

"The Course of Empire: Destruction," Thomas Cole (1836) From The German Ideology(1845): >"Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established,...

Karl Marx Quote Of The Day

"American Trajedy," Ralph Fasanella (1964) From Human Needs & The Division Of Labour (1844): >"When communist artisans associate with one another, theory, propa...

Karl Marx Quote Of The Day

"The Funeral Of The Anarchist Galli," Carlo Carrá (1911) From Reflections Of A Young Man: >"If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all w...

Friedrich Engels Quote Of The Day

"Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Men crossing the Alps," JMW Turner (1812) From The Part Played By Labour In The Transition From Ape to Man: >"Let us not, however,...