YES WE CAN!
5 months ago on December 31, 2011 at 12:43am
5 months ago on December 19, 2011 at 10:47pm
5 months ago on December 11, 2011 at 10:31pm
At the moment that the “normal” police and military resources of the bourgeois dictatorship, together with their parliamentary screens, no longer suffice to hold society in a state of equilibrium — the turn of the fascist regime arrives. Through the fascist agency, capitalism sets in motion the masses of the crazed petty bourgeoisie and the bands of declassed and demoralized lumpenproletariat — all the countless human beings whom finance capital itself has brought to desperation and frenzy.
From fascism the bourgeoisie demands a thorough job; once it has resorted to methods of civil war, it insists on having peace for a period of years. And the fascist agency, by utilizing the petty bourgeoisie as a battering ram, by overwhelming all obstacles in its path, does a thorough job. After fascism is victorious, finance capital directly and immediately gathers into its hands, as in a vise of steel, all the organs and institutions of sovereignty, the executive administrative, and educational powers of the state: the entire state apparatus together with the army, the municipalities, the universities, the schools, the press, the trade unions, and the co-operatives. When a state turns fascist, it does not mean only that the forms and methods of government are changed in accordance the patterns set by Mussolini — the changes in this sphere ultimately play a minor role — but it means first of all for the most part that the workers’ organizations are annihilated; that the proletariat is reduced to an amorphous state; and that a system of administration is created which penetrates deeply into the masses and which serves to frustrate the independent crystallization of the proletariat. Therein precisely is the gist of fascism….
Trotsky on the rise of Fascism
5 months ago on December 05, 2011 at 11:06am
Your Police. Protecting & serving the shit out of you.
Democracy is fuckin awesome huh? #OWS
5 months ago on December 04, 2011 at 11:24pm
Ian Boddy & Parallel Worlds - Exit Strategy
6 months ago on December 04, 2011 at 12:21am
Stuxnet, the age of digital warfare and the hypocrisy of government hacking. cc/@ALEC_EMPIRE
6 months ago on December 01, 2011 at 02:26pm
How shopping malls make you part with your money.
6 months ago on November 30, 2011 at 11:19am
Despite all the rights of free speech and assembly flamboyantly guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, the reality is that punishing the exercise of those rights with police force and state violence has been the reflexive response in America for quite some time. ›
Glenn Greenwald:
The intent and effect of such abuse is that it renders those guaranteed freedoms meaningless. If a population becomes bullied or intimidated out of exercising rights offered on paper, those rights effectively cease to exist. Every time the citizenry watches peaceful protesters getting pepper-sprayed — or hears that an Occupy protester suffered brain damage and almost died after being shot in the skull with a rubber bullet — many become increasingly fearful of participating in this citizen movement, and also become fearful in general of exercising their rights in a way that is bothersome or threatening to those in power. That’s a natural response, and it’s exactly what the climate of fear imposed by all abusive police state actions is intended to achieve: to coerce citizens to “decide” on their own to be passive and compliant — to refrain from exercising their rights — out of fear of what will happen if they don’t.
The genius of this approach is how insidious its effects are: because the rights continue to be offered on paper, the citizenry continues to believe it is free. They believe that they are free to do everything they choose to do, because they have been “persuaded” — through fear and intimidation — to passively accept the status quo. As Rosa Luxemburg so perfectly put it: “Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.” Someone who sits at home and never protests or effectively challenges power factions will not realize that their rights of speech and assembly have been effectively eroded because they never seek to exercise those rights; it’s only when we see steadfast, courageous resistance from the likes of these UC-Davis students is this erosion of rights manifest.
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Title: Blood Doesnt Float on Water
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Blood Doesn’t Float On Water
Been listening to alot of I, Parasite lately, which is obvious when you hear this.
Recorded in only three takes.
1st Take Sequencing while recording guitar.
2nd Take Synth automation.
3rd Take Vocals. (Improv lyrics on the spot using words printed on music instruments in my studio)
Rough mixing and minor tweaks done.
Future Retro XS used for dirty drone.
Predator used for Bass line.
Vocal effects thanks to TC Helicon Create XT
Tabla beat created in Reason. (Pulled from my personal sample library)
