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Years of Renewal (Henry Kissinger's Memoirs #3)

by Henry Kissinger

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The Making of the English Working Class

by E.P. Thompson

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Julio Pino said: " "How can Britain have the most class conscious proletariat in all of Europe and at the same time that proletariat has never shown any interest in revolutionary politics?"---Perry Anderson.
Ask anyone to name the most important historical work in Engl "How can Britain have the most class conscious proletariat in all of Europe and at the same time that proletariat has never shown any interest in revolutionary politics?"---Perry Anderson.
Ask anyone to name the most important historical work in English since the Second World War and until now (2002) and they will instantly cite THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH WORKING CLASS. First, a confession: I never met E.P. Thompson but am a friend and former colleague of his arch-rival on the British left, Perry Anderson, who ousted E.P. from the editorship of NEW LEFT REVIEW back in the 1960s. (Thompson retaliated by writing THE POVERTY OF THEORY, a surreptitious attack on Perry.) Suppose the most important figure in the "making of the English working class" was not Karl Marx, Kier Hardy or Clement Attlee but John Wesley, founder of Methodism? Following the lead of Giorgi Lukacs, "there is not class without class consciousness", Thompson posits that the British proletariat first saw itself as a class when Wesley, and his brother Charles, went into the slums of London and other British cities to give verbal, periodical and even theological expression to the radical idea that workers were human beings with the right to eat, drink and house themselves. However, Wesley did not believe in working-class suffrage nor in doing away with class privileges or distinctions. Methodism, by terms and turns, awakened and narcotized the British working class, answering Anderson's question. Of course, this massive work does not reduce British working class consciousness to religion alone. The movement from cottage industry to factory, Britain's insular protection from Continental radical ideas (think of the French Revolution), and a very early distinction between skilled and unskilled labor rank high on the list of causes. Today (2022) the U.K. is facing the greatest economic crisis since the Depression (political crisis too) and still no proletarian alternative to Conservatives and Labourites is in sight. I pray someday someone does an equally insightful and beautifully written study on the making of the American working class. ...more "

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A Treatise of Human Nature / An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding / An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals / Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (David Hume Collection)

by David Hume

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“Love is not weakness. It's the bravest act of our lives.”
― Georgia Scott, American Girl: Memories That Made Me

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“Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of and the value of it is nothing else but the sense that you choose.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism

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“When I think back those tides were like women with different scents and different demands. Low tide was fruity and cool. It took a while to get to her edge. Low tide held back. The onus was on you to go on over to her. High tide smelled of heat that built up. It was Chanel No. 5 to her drugstore opposite. She went after you in no uncertain terms.”
― Georgia Scott, American Girl: Memories That Made Me

tags: beaches, scents, summer, women-empowerment

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“There is only one way to be an intellectual revolutionary, and that is to give up being an intellectual”
― Jean-Luc Godard

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“La vida y los sueños son hojas de uno y el mismo libro. Leerlo de corrido equivale a la vida real. Pero algunas veces, cuando acaban las horas de lectura (el día) y llega el tiempo de reposo, seguimos hojeando ese libro sin orden ni concierto, abriéndolo al azar por una u otra de sus páginas; con frecuencia se trata de una página ya leída y en otras ocasiones de una página desconocida, pero siempre son páginas de uno y el mismo libro. Así, una página aislada no guarda trabazón alguna con una lectura consecuente de principio a fin, mas no por ello queda muy a la zaga de ésta, si se piensa que también el conjunto de la lectura consecutiva comienza y acaba de improviso, con lo cual cabe considerarla como una sola página un tanto más extensa.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, El mundo como voluntad y representación

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