Pop/Nihilism

VIOLENCE is to work 40 years for peanuts and wondering if you will ever retire.
VIOLENCE is state bonds, stolen pension funds, the stock market scam.
VIOLENCE is to be forced to take out a home loan which you end up paying back like it was gold.
VIOLENCE is the right of an employer to fire you any time he or she likes.
VIOLENCE is unemployment, insecurity, 700 euros salary with or without social security.
VIOLENCE is workplace “accidents” because bosses reduce their costs at the expense of their employees’ safety.
VIOLENCE is taking psychotropic drugs and vitamins to cope with exhausting hours.
VIOLENCE is to be an immigrant, to live in fear that you are likely to be deported any time and experiencing constant insecurity.
VIOLENCE is to be an employee, housewife, and mother at the same time.
VIOLENCE is to be groped at work and told: “Smile, we are not asking you for much, are we?”.

Leaflet by the liberated town hall of Agios Dimitros, Greece, December 2008 (via introtoclasswar) (via clitorisaurusrex) (via ifighttheonesthatfightme) (via ihatethismess) (via radioactiveriotgrrrls)

/reblogged from I date communists

NOTES: 94 7/25/10, 8:46pm SHORT URL: http://tmblr.co/Z4iyNypDUIk FILED UNDER: #violence #greece

Violence is described (in the media) and criticized when it is practiced by people who are oppressed, when they try to defend themselves somehow. But when it is practiced by a state, it is not described as violence.

Dr. Mustafa Barghouti

-And as Zizek would point out. This method of describing subjective violence in a way which shows preference to one party (the state) is in fact a subtle, but no less potent act of violence in itself.

(via thebarstoolphilosopher)

/reblogged from The Barstool Philosopher

NOTES: 6 7/22/10, 7:30pm SHORT URL: http://tmblr.co/Z4iyNyoW1Wk FILED UNDER: #violence #class war

curate: I thought the latest post by Matthew Taylor was out of touch. I have...

I thought the latest post by Matthew Taylor was out of touch. I have news for him: violence works. Violence pushed Israel out of southern Lebanon, and violence repelled the Israeli incursion into Lebanon in 2006. Violence let the Bielski partisans save our people during the Holocaust. Violence…

/reblogged from crt

NOTES: 3 6/15/10, 4:45pm SHORT URL: http://tmblr.co/Z4iyNyfsnTV FILED UNDER: #violence #liberation #class struggle

Glenn Greenwald: Iraq slaughter not an aberration

suburbananarchist:

A major reason there are hundreds of thousands of dead innocent civilians in Iraq, and thousands more in Afghanistan, is because this is what we do. This is why so many of those civilians are dead. What one sees on that video is how we conduct our wars. That’s why it’s repulsive to watch people — including some ”liberals” — attack WikiLeaks for slandering The Troops, or complain that objections to these actions unfairly disparage the military because “our guys are the good guys” and they act differently “99.99999999% of the time.” That is blatantly false.

/reblogged from Suburban Left

4/6/10, 5:35pm SHORT URL: http://tmblr.co/Z4iyNyTvcMW FILED UNDER: #war #violence

traces.: an exposition of Slavoj Zizek's coordination of violence(s).

3/4/10, 9:24pm SHORT URL: http://tmblr.co/Z4iyNyPUlb9 FILED UNDER: #In Defense of Lost Causes #On Violence #slavoj zizek #violence #zizek #theory