swampman posted:

.custom252046{}NoFreeWill posted:i finished maldoror and some other stuff.

everyone read these this guy is cool:
http://www.jasonwmoore.com/Essays.html

capitalism as world-ecology!!Is there any good sex scenes in it

yeah the one where the human plague fucks this gay earth

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett said Monday he supports a bill designed to prevent offenders from causing their victims "mental anguish," a proposal launched after a Vermont college choose a convicted cop killer as a commencement speaker.

Corbett spoke at a Capitol event one day after Mumia Abu-Jamal gave a recorded address to about 20 graduates at Goddard College in Plainfield.

"Nobody has the right to continually taunt the victims of their violent crimes in the public square," Corbett said. He called the school's choice of Abu-Jamal "unconscionable."

The bill that advanced out of a House committee Monday would allow victims to go to court for an injunction against "conduct which perpetuates the continuing effects of the crime on the victim."

Abu-Jamal is serving life in prison for killing Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner in 1981.

In the recorded remarks, he encouraged the students to "think about the myriad of problems that beset this land and strive to make it better" but did not address the crime for which he was convicted.

The Pennsylvania legislative proposal defines the conduct at issue as that which "causes a temporary or permanent state of mental anguish."

It would allow victims or prosecutors to ask for an injunction "or other appropriate relief."

Andy Hoover with the American Civil Liberties Union in Pennsylvania said the measure was vague and too broad.

"The Legislature doesn't have the power to punish speech it doesn't like," said Hoover, the organization's legislative director. He said former offenders could end up being penalized, decades after being released from prison, for speaking about their experience or on public interest matters.

"If enacted, this bill will likely have First Amendment troubles," Hoover said.

Abu-Jamal's claims of being the victim of a racist justice system have brought his support across the world, and his story has been told in documentaries and books. Goddard College calls him "an award winning journalist who chronicles the human condition."

TheIneff posted:

http://www.theguardian.com/books/live/2014/oct/06/slavoj-zizek-webchat-absolute-recoilzizek said some more thing today

CatontheMat asks:
Why are you so down on anarcho-communism? Would you rather put your faith in the dictatorship of the proletariat?

SlavojZizek
08 October 2014 3:04pm
By anarchocommunism, it is probably meant this appeal to non representative direct democracy, where at the local level, people are directly engaged in solving their problems. I think this is good, as far as it happens, but it doesn't work as the global solution. First thing. Let's take Venezuela, where they did try to implement a grassroots democracy, but the other necessary part of the same project was a strong authoritarian leader who made the terms. This is always a problem with these grassroots movements. They are fine up to a certain point and then you cannot go further and the problem today, for me, is precisely how to go further. What we need are large decisions, actions, and so on. To fight ecological threats for example, it's not enough to organise in our local communities recycling and so on. We need in the long term radical restructuring of our entire industrial civilisation.

The second problem I have with this grassroots participatory democracy may appear just a personal one. But I think there is a universal truth in it. Can you imagine living in a society where you would have to be engaged all the time in some stupid local problems? Debating this and that, how to organise healthcare, schooling, parks, whatever. It would be hell. I want a certain degree of alienation. I want some nameless agency just to do these relatively efficiently, so that things function, and I can do what I really want to do. Read books, watch good movies, and so on. I don't think that active participation of the majority should be kept as an ideal, it is something that works only in states of emergency.

Admiral Rupert posted:

I agree. My philosophy professor told me

you better believe that's a catchphrase

HenryKrinkle posted:

http://www.irr.org.uk/news/protecting-european-democracy-or-reviving-the-cold-war/

Pos my neg hole

innsmouthful posted:

yo im just chiming in on the discussion from a few pages back. fascism owns, you fucking faggots.

lol