Luxemburg
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When will I see you? I miss you so much that my soul is simply thirsting! Do you know what, my gold? It’s soon going to be midnight, but down below [on the streets] all around there’s noise and shouting, paper boys crying out—just like at noontime.
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― The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg
― The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg
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In the same year as the original Disaster article, Meredeth Turshen attacked the paradigm of clinical medicine as excessively preoccupied with how the individual body reacts to disease, missing the bigger picture of class and other collectivities. She cited Engels’s descriptions of how polluted air, poorly ventilated houses, overcrowded slums and omnipresent sewage predisposed the workers of Manchester to become ill. She could have also quoted Rosa Luxemburg: ‘The doctors can trace the fatal inf
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― Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century
― Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century
