March 7, 2013
by Liangyi Chen The sovereign state of Papua New Guinea – which the United Kingdom’s Queen Elizabeth II presently claims as one of the sixteen commonwealth realms over which Her Majesty still technically reigns supreme – is a land riddled with contradictions. To this very day, old-fashioned historians of civilization still can’t resist the temptation […]
February 14, 2013
by Phil Ingram At the beginning of the Phenomenology, Hegel remarks that by the little which satisfies the spirit, we can measure the extent of its loss. Having followed Taj Tarik Bey’s ideological development for nearly two years now, the scientific editors of Selecting Stones are convinced that there is no more poignant example of […]
September 15, 2012
by Phil Ingram “Only a Hector can have a premonition that he will fall by the hand of an Achilles.” Coercive measures taken by society in individual cases are often hard and brutally materialistic, but as scientific editors of Selecting Stones, our hatred and contempt for life under capitalism has always proven to be more […]
July 31, 2012
A landlord is a person. The only difference between him and any other person is that there exists a sheet of paper in an office somewhere which has both his name on it and the address of some specific building. The tenant is also a person. The tenant lives in the same building mentioned on […]
December 8, 2011
by Bruno Fournier and Lawrence McMahon Occupy DC has made its way into the news this week. For most of its two-month period of existence, Occupy DC has been among the most peaceful and least disruptive of all the various Occupy encampments across the U.S. This started to change on Sunday, with 31 arrests after […]
October 10, 2011
by Lawrence McMahon Just like the upper middle class whose objective interests it currently represents, the Occupy Wall Street movement lacks heroism. Let us set aside the question of non-violence vs. violence, for the real question of the hour is legality vs. illegality. Occupy Wall Street has opted for the tactic of non-violence, but they […]
June 16, 2011
by Lawrence McMahon Juan Cole just said something rather strange on his blog, Informed Comment. The piece covers the arrest yesterday of five Pakistani C.I.A. informants by Pakistani authorities. Big news, no doubt. Cole notes that U.S.-Pakistan relations have recently been “breaking down” in “alarming ways.” He cites the case of Raymond Davis, an American […]
June 14, 2011
by Anthony Burton In my last essay, “Theses on Dead Prez: Abolishing the Family,” I urged my fellow comrades who are still intellectually and emotionally enslaved to the American educational system – their educational system – to drop out of school immediately and start reading Marx, because the precarious conditions of existence for the proletariat […]
June 12, 2011
by Bruno Fournier Let’s face one of the most contentious issues of the contemporary U.S. culture wars head-on: Gay Marriage. What I am about to present here may seem an act of sacrilege to many, but that is because it is so infrequently attempted. The Gay Rights movement and the explosive issue of gay marriage […]
May 19, 2013
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