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Another fantastic birthday week.

1) My brother and I gift books on our birthdays. Last year he brought me two books from Switzerland, both of which I already had. This year he brought me KL and was sure I hadn‘t heard of it. I had to tell him I just finished Book 2. He asked where I heard about it and said from my Litsy family. His response was “I hate those people”. 🤣 I am thrilled to have a physical copy.
2) Guilty pleasure ⬇️

We do not care if it offends or upsets you because it‘s a political post and not “book-related,” because we‘re going to say it anyway: If you support a man who thinks teaching people that owning human beings is “woke,” you might be —nay, you ARE —a fascist Nazi.

Go ahead. The unfollow button is right up there. ⬆️ Don‘t let the door hit you on the way out.

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I found the first section of the pamphlet incisive and inspirational, as Vaneigem sets out, via the Situationist concept of the Spectacle, how Capitalism oppresses people, and of how the discontents felt by most people living under this oppression point the way towards their liberation.
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Pic: Raoul Vaneigem [r] and Guy Debord [l].

THE ESSENTIAL MAX STIRNER SUPER BUNDLE❗️

This curated bundle brings together essential texts and critical commentaries exploring the thought and legacy of Max Stirner, the 19th-century philosopher best known for 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑼𝒏𝒊𝒒𝒖𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰𝒕𝒔 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒚. Whether new to Stirner or looking to deepen your understanding, this set offers a comprehensive entry point into egoism, individualist philosophy, and the debates surrounding them.

"Don't you find it odious and absurd to make any distinction between immigrant and home-born workers?
In that case you have realised that the old adage about "proletarians having no home land" remains perfectly true and should be borne in mind constantly to ward off the shit of nationalism and racism."

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"Haven't you already taken part in pilfering from a distribution factory, ie, a supermarket?
In that case, you have come to understand that individual re-appropriation of goods stolen by the State & the employer class merely feeds the commodity process until it becomes a collective action & leads to total liquidation of the system, however...it is not enough to just repossess goods. One must also repossess the time and space stolen from us all."

"Haven't you ever felt like giving up reading the newspapers and putting your foot through the television?
In that case, you have come to appreciate that the press, radio and television are the crassest vehicles for the lie...We subsist amid a forest of images with which we are driven to identify. We act less & less for ourselves and more & more as puppets of abstractions that direct us according to the laws of profit and power."
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"Has it ever happened that, outside your place of work, you have felt the same distaste and weariness as you do inside the factory?
In that case, you have come to understand that the factory is all around us...It is the time and space of our everyday subsistence. It is becoming accustomed to repetitive moves and suppressed emotions."
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I'm working hard to not just transcribe whole pages from this 1974 Situationist tract.

"Haven't you ever, just once, felt like turning up late for work or felt like slipping away from work early?
In that case, you have realised that time spent working is time doubly lost because it is time doubly wasted - as time which might be more agreeably spent making love, or day-dreaming, on pleasure or on one's hobbies: time which one would otherwise be free to spend however one wished - as time spent wearing us down physically & nervously."