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For the degeneration of the workers’ movement has led the theorists to represent the class struggle as a duel, or a game between actively conscious partners, and each social or political event as a manoeuvre by one of these partners—a conception that has no more to do with materialism than has Greek mythology.

Simone Weil • Oppression and Liberty

She was thoroughly charming to him, but of course he theorized a little about his attachment. He was made of excellent human dough, and had the rare merit of knowing that his talents, even if let loose, would not set the smallest stream in the country on fire: hence he liked the prospect of a wife to whom he could say, ‘What shall we do?’ about thi

Rosemary Ashton • Middlemarch

Feminist Philosophy

Tara McMullin • 5 cards

In 1947, studying for his citizenship exam, Gödel reportedly claimed to have found a loophole in the US Constitution that would allow Americans to elect a dictator.

David Shields • How We Got Here: Melville Plus Nietzsche Divided by the Square Root of (Allan) Bloom Times Žižek (Squared) Equals Bannon

Sterrenburg, "Politics and Psyche in Frankenstein"

Lee Sterrenburg knarf.english.upenn.edu

Whenever I mention women’s cruelty toward each other to women socially, I hear a reflexive blaming of patriarchy, an abstract, immeasurable, and unfalsifiable concept. This is concerning because we do have control over our own behavior toward others, and it seems leftist ideology wants to studiously ignore it. You can choose not to be a bully. We d

Who is to say who we are? All we can find out now is who we are not, to the degree that through struggle we gain the power to break our capitalist identification. It has always been the ruling class, or those who aspire to rule, who have presupposed a natural and eternal human personality: it was to eternalize their power over us. -Nicole Cox and S... See more

This is how what might be called the traditional female square is composed. The woman is Servant, Seductress, Lover, and Saint.

Alain Badiou • The True Life

A key realization for me, which came in a flash, was the idea that neoliberalism is not a total worldview. Many people believe it is, but in fact it is a political-economic project that can articulate with several different and even competing projects of recognition—including progressive ones.