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malthus: whimsey for the sullen men of property
Malthus. The theory that, essentially, the poor should not reproduce as they strain the food supply, which will be outdistanced, inevitably by population growth, leading to that final leg of human misery: famine, starvation and death. Alas, the flesh being … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Dickens, Philip Hermogenes Calderon, Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Robert Malthus, William Godwin, William Hazlitt
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malthus: specter at the feast
Thomas Robert Malthus. Hunger is always at the door, even in an era like our own. People still die of starvation. Do people starve because there are too many of us ? Or, is famine the necessary companion, the price … Continue reading
LETTING YOUR HAIR DOWN WITH THE “HYENA IN PETTICOATS”
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797 ) was a radical in the sense that she desired to bridge the gap between mankind’s present circumstances and ultimate perfection. She was truly a child of the French Revolution and saw a new age of reason … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrea Dworkin, Betty Friedan, Boudicca, Carolyn Korsmeyer, Christine Battersby, Cindy Chandler, Claire Clairmont, Cynthia Freeland, Edmund Burke, Eithne Johnson, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Emma Goldman, Emma Willard, Eric Schaefer, Gail Dines, Gilbert Imlay, Gloria Allred, Greta Garbo, Henry Fuseli, Janet Todd, Jason Burke, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jeremy Bentham, John Cartwright, Joseph Johnson, Kim Airs, Laura Mulvey, Linda Nochlin, Lord Byron, Lucretia Mott, Lucy Lippard, Lyndall Gordon, Mary Shelley, Megan Amberger, Nancy Burns, Oscar Wilde, Percy Shelley, Richard Price, Robespierre, Rush Limbaugh, Simone de Beauvoir, Susan B. Anthony, Susie Bright, Tom Hazlitt, Toni Bentley, William Godwin
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A WAGER ON THE FUTURE: FECKLESS ABANDON
The British eighteenth century used to be presented as the serene aftermath of the spectacular disruptions of the seventeenth century or as the quietly corrupt old regime against which a modernizing nineteenth century set itself. Both interpretations seriously underplayed the eighteenth century’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela Rosenthal, Caleb Williams, Cricket, Cricket gambling, Cricket history, Edmond Hoyle, Edmund Burke, George Stubbs, Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire, Henry Bunbury, Holcroft, Inchbald, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Wooton, John Zoffany, Joseph Wright, Lady Letitia Lade, Richard Holmes, Sir Brooke Boothby, Thomas Rowlandson, Tommy Onslow, Vincent Lunardi, William Godwin, William Hogarth, Zoffany
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PROPAGANDA OF THE DEEDS AND DON'TS
”According to an apocryphal story, Henry Kissinger/André Malraux/an unidentified journalist once asked Chinese premier Zhou Enlai about the significance of the French Revolution. Zhou reportedly replied that it was still too early to tell. Taking this story in its intended spirit, one might … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert and Lucy Parsons, Albert Parsons, Alexander Berkman, Anarchism, Anarchist Action, Anarchist movement, Andre Malraux, Arthur Martin, Berrigan Brothers, Black Bloc, Domela Nieuwenhuis, Emile Florion, Gandhi, Gandhi Groupies, George Woodcock, Gerda Taro, Guiseppe Fanelli, Henry Kissinger, James L. Gelvin, Louis Aragon, Marxism, Mikail Bakunin, Mike Flugennock, Peter Shields Police officer, Pierre Joseph Proudhon, Tolstoy, Van Helsing, William Godwin
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NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKS HERE'S THE BLACK BLOC
God save the queen The fascist regime They made you a moron Potential H-bomb God save the queen She ain’t no human being There is no future In England’s dreaming Don’t be told what you want Don’t be told what … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Jones, Alexander Berkman, Ben Schumin, Black Bloc, Emma Goldman, Empress Elizabeth of Austria, Gandhi, Henry David Thoreau, Jamie Reid, Jamie Reid The Sex Pistols, John Thompson Mackenzie Institute, Johnny Rotten Sex Pistols, Jonathan Kay, Jonathan Kay national Post, Kathryn Blaze Carlson, King Umberto of Italy, Malcolm McLaren, Nestor Machno, Paul Joseph Watson, Paul Myers, Peter St. John University of Manitoba, Planet Prison, President Carnot of France, Prince Kropotkin, prisonplanet.com, Proudhon, Pulmyears, Sex Pistols, Tolstoy, William Godwin
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