politrix

If you and your ten children were in a desert and across the sand from you was someone else with their ten children...

and if that person was wearing full body armor and helmets and gloves and was heavily armed...

and if that person so heavily armed was even still, sitting inside a tank... a state of the art impenetrable tank...

and if all you...
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Ideology: as viewed through the texts of Marx and Mannheim

The political and social world around us was not created, nor is it sustained, by innate reflex. It is the construction, the situation, the product of the actions of individuals. These actions, occurring within this social arena, and to a great extent, without, are shaped, to varying degrees, by some form of thought. In a...
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I'm back... everyone can exhale now.

Finishing up my paper tonight on Marx and Mannheim. 24 pages so far, would like to have 6 more done by the time I crash. Its been a blast but I really am kind of sick of it at this point. As always though, it'll be posted on here so if anyone has any trouble sleeping, or feels so...
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it's been a pleasure, folks...

One year is almost up. If you clicked to come here, consider this my personal "glad to have 'met' you."

peace,
Steve

Had a big party. Went really well. Met a girl who has to be the smartest twenty y/o I've ever met. The more she talked, he more I liked her. She was so impressive. I want to talk with her again.

Everyone was finally gone at 6am.

Now it's back to the grind. Been fucking off way too much over the last few days. I...
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Yer All invited:

SATURDAY Sept 20th: 5pm-'Til the cops run folks off

Ist Annual Jax-Riverside Grassroots B.Y.O.P. Party
(Bring Your Own Politics)

3 Bands, Free Food, Two Keg minimum, Music, etc., and all the politics you can stomach. A meeting of progressive-minded folks to hang out and meet as we work on advancing a new agenda. (vegan food will be available and bottled beer might...
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Thursday morning at around 8:48 the shitty music played at the folks where I work was interupted for an announcement saying something to the effect of "we would like for everyone to stop what they are doing at this time and pause for a few moments as we have a moment of silence to remember the tragic events of September 11th."

Which was kind of...
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The gloves are coming off.

Just found out that one of my best friends, a guy I have the utmost respect for, a guy I competed with all throughout my undergraduate degree, is doing some post-grad work in History, writing a thesis on the historical development of late-modern capitalism.

A mutual acquaintance told me tonight that he's reading 100-150 pages every night.

THIS CANNOT STAND....
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I'm officially done moving! Everything is out of the old apartment and into the new one. My legs feel like I just came off a 25-mile forced march, small obscure muscles in my back are suddenly letting me know they exist, but I'm happy, because I am done.

Today is laundry and organizing day, and tomorrow is LABOR DAY. (better than X-mas)

My new place...
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Day 2: Actually moved stuff into my new place today. Started on the living room and the office. Dana, my other half, luckily was there to talk me out of having the office in the middkle of the apartment, which has always been how I set things up, But now, I have the office in a smaller room with a window, which does look like...
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