Q: Will capitalism survive the next storm or is this truly the end of the world? A: It depends on the proletariat. The interests of capital and wage labor are diametrically opposed to one another. But technically speaking, the end of capitalism does not necessarily have to mean that the world is coming to an […]
September 19, 2012
by Phil Ingram Mythology by definition overcomes and shapes the forces of nature in the imagination and by the imagination until unconsciously it becomes a dominating arsenal and foundation of art. As we discovered yet again last week with the viral popularity of “The Innocence of Muslims” film on YouTube, the naively childish vision of […]
September 13, 2012
by Frank W. Strauch Some stupid Christian fundamentalists from that bastion of reactionary ideology known as SoCal have created a crappy YouTube video. It features some guy who looks like an even dorkier version of Owen Wilson supposedly playing the role of the historical figure Muhammad, who is therein portrayed with a bunch of negative […]
November 19, 2011
by Troy Clavileño As the great lumpenproletarian poet and gangster rapper Tupac Shakur used to do better than anyone else back in his vintage form, let’s go see what our enemies are talking about. Is Selecting Stones really science or is it just a lot of “bombastic, self-righteously hyperbolic, and profoundly disingenuous rhetoric”? “This sounds […]
November 7, 2011
by Anthony Burton It is the most ancient and essential premise of patriarchy, according to the leading school of thought on the subject, that the first kings were fathers of families, from which it somehow follows that the first cause of the fall of Adam, or the original sin, was the desire for liberty. Not […]
November 1, 2011
Dear Internet, As scientific editors of Selecting Stones, and as politicians of the Leninist type, i.e. without contamination, we would like to remind you that it is up to the electors, the people, to demand from their deputies that they shall be good for their duties like Lenin was. The enemies of the working class […]
September 26, 2011
by Troy Clavileño When we announced the establishment of Selecting Stones back in February 2011, the world had only just discovered that it was pregnant with another revolution, and while it is now too late to abort the fetus, much to the embarrassment and dissatisfaction of the increasingly antiquated middle class, it is still entirely […]
September 23, 2011
by Eduardo Dijo Genghis Khan, orphaned and enslaved, realized better than most, perhaps, the bitter irony, that the world must be destroyed externally before it destroys itself from within. Why? The question is returning once again to the always necessary and always treacherous stage of world history: are there real advantages to homelessness? Ça dépend, […]
January 10, 2013
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