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""The appellation of the Forgotten War is not accidental; what is commemorated ... in the US serves to sustain imperialist interests. This pattern is not unique to Korea and manifests in discourses about many ongoing sites of liberation struggle. In Palestine, for example, through this lens of selective forgetting and remembering, occupation is framed as 'conflict' and acts of resistance are framed as terrorism"
BARS" — Mar 24, 2026 09:20AM
""The appellation of the Forgotten War is not accidental; what is commemorated ... in the US serves to sustain imperialist interests. This pattern is not unique to Korea and manifests in discourses about many ongoing sites of liberation struggle. In Palestine, for example, through this lens of selective forgetting and remembering, occupation is framed as 'conflict' and acts of resistance are framed as terrorism"
BARS" — Mar 24, 2026 09:20AM
“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”
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“Let Pascal say that man is a thinking reed. He is wrong; man is a thinking erratum. Each period in life is a new edition that corrects the preceding one and that in turn will be corrected by the next, until publication of the definitive edition, which the publisher donates to the worms.”
― Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas
― Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas
“Ideas and opinions are not spontaneously "born" in each individual brain: they have had a centre of formation, or irradiation, of dissemination, of persuasion-a group of men, or a single individual even, which has developed them and presented them in the political form of current reality.”
― Selections from the Prison Notebooks
― Selections from the Prison Notebooks
“While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.”
― Anthills of the Savannah
― Anthills of the Savannah
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