Quote of the Month: Marxism and Enlightenment

 "In this epoch of capitalism in advanced decay, we communists who have as our aim the proletarian conquest of state power and the reconstruction of society on a new egalitarian socialist basis are at the same time the most consistent defenders of the ideals of the Enlightenment and the gains of the bourgeois revolution: we are intransigent fighters for bourgeois-democratic liberties—for the right to bear arms; for the abolition of all monarchy and aristocratic privilege; for the separation of church and state; against the imposition of religious fundamentalism as a political program; for the defense of free speech and assembly against the encroachment of the bourgeois state; against barbaric “punishments” such as the death penalty; for juridical equality for women and minorities." -- Declaration of Principles and Some Elements of Program, International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist)

The American Exchange Program

“Right now it’s far too easy for Americans to generalize about people in another state or region or walk of life. If we have each high school graduate spend time with a diverse set of graduates in different parts of the country, they would forever form a different, deeper and broader understanding of what it means to be an American. It would improve our culture and politics immeasurably over time. Plus, every 18-year old would love a road trip.” – Andrew Yang

Quote of the Day

 “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." --Jiddu Krishnamurti

To be precise, the healthiest person is able to function even in a profoundly sick society, but uses that ability to try to change it.