This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.
How does one fashion a book of resistance, a book of truth in an empire of falsehood, or a book of rectitude in an empire of vicious lies? How does one do this right in front of the enemy?
Philip K. Dick
War and Imperialism
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Peter, I think you should put a link in so that people who come across this commentary can find out how to get a copy of "From New Age to New Gnosis."
You are probably right in criticising the contradiction in the piece, about capitalism and imperialism. My point was that "capitalism" is not what it pretends to be.
As for Marx' analysis: I was never a student of Marx anyway.
http://www.thenewsocialism.org/theocracy.htm
http://www.newgnosis.co.uk/
I got the idea from Chomsky, as follows: "To begin with, I think terms like "capitalism" and "socialism" have been so evacuated of any substantive meaning that I don't even like to use them. There's nothing remotely like capitalism in existence. To the extent there ever was, it had disappeared by the 1920s or '30s. Every industrial society is one form or another of state capitalism."
GREAT post Chris.. definitely linking to this one.
I think your absence from the blogging world is ok in a way, even though I missed you, you make up in quality what you lack in quantity. I can think of some blogs I read that in all this time haven't posted that much good stuff.. ;-)
Nice to see you back.
Love xx
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