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War Day 335: Fighting tyranny, with songs, jokes, and tanks… my report from #Ukraine given every weekday since February on Chicago’s @WGNRadio … 🧵
#SuzanneVega made a haunting song about #Mariupol. Some people scoff at celebrity tributes to Ukraine but here is why it matters to Ukrainians:
What is going on in #Zaporizhzhia? … especially in #Hulyaipole (a village with a lovely name unless you mispronounce it, in which case it sounds like a common Ukrainian word for Putin these days)
On associe la lutte des classes au marxisme. Mais, avant la parution du Manifeste du parti communiste (1848), les penseurs libéraux savaient déjà que la société se divisait en classes sociales luttant pour la répartition des richesses.
Aujourd'hui, quelques citations 😀
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Aujourd'hui, quelques citations 😀
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Adam Smith en 1776 : « Les ouvriers désirent obtenir autant que possible, les maîtres donner aussi peu que possible. Les premiers sont prêts à se réunir pour augmenter les salaires, les autres pour les diminuer ». 
James Madison (l’un des Pères fondateurs des États-Unis) en 1787 : « […] la source la plus commune et la plus durable de factions [au sein d’une république] a été la variété et l’inégalité dans la distribution de la propriété ».
Can't believe my eyes seeing de Tocqueville quoted re: prospects of democratic transition in #Algeria. The guy literally wrote memos in support of French brutal torture system in #Algeria. It's already a violence that he became the democracy theorist in the US but this is a farce
On #epistemic violences and theorizing from the #GlobalSouth, think about how Alexis de Tocqueville, before becoming the father figure of democracy in the U.S. was a war-strategist for colonial #France in #Algeria. I'll throw in a few bonus quotes from his "Essay on #Algeria":
#Tocqueville wrote in 1841 "The most effective means we can use to subjugate the tribes is the interdiction of commerce” - speaking here about #Algerians around the Ottoman Empire's fall and the invasion of #France.
