Social relationships have their inherent logic; as long as people live in given mutual relationships they will feel, think and act in a given way, and no other. Attempts on the part of public men to combat this logic also would be fruitless; the natural course of things (this logic of social relationships) would reduce all his effort to nought. But if I know in what direction social relations are changing owing to given changes in the social-economic process of production, I also know in what direction social mentality is changing; consequently, I am able to influence it. Influencing social mentality means influencing historical events. Hence, in a certain sense, I can make history, and there is no need for me to wait while "it is being made."
Thanks, I'm going to have to go back to checking this strip out everyday like I used to...very funny, so pertinent...
engage, enrage, inspire, act
Isn't this a pretty mainstream comic strip? Oh damn, that's awesome.
but doesn't seem to be anymore...that's a good sign, they've been caustic for years...guess someone noticed...
engage, enrage, inspire, act
that's where I saw it, the Spartanburg Herald Journal, owned by the NYT, as reactionary an asswipe as can be found. I think the guy can be found in about a hundred publications, almost never political, but if he keeps it up....
Hey, ya think it would make a good OP at DU? Discuss....
Social relationships have their inherent logic; as long as people live in given mutual relationships they will feel, think and act in a given way, and no other. Attempts on the part of public men to combat this logic also would be fruitless; the natural course of things (this logic of social relationships) would reduce all his effort to nought. But if I know in what direction social relations are changing owing to given changes in the social-economic process of production, I also know in what direction social mentality is changing; consequently, I am able to influence it. Influencing social mentality means influencing historical events. Hence, in a certain sense, I can make history, and there is no need for me to wait while "it is being made."
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And, yeah, on edit, I think it would be a good OP myself... or as they say in the strip above "Okay, Pig, Go ahead!
engage, enrage, inspire, act
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