#Jacobins

There was a throwaway sentence in a textbook I was reading: "In 1793, the French actress Olympe de Gouges was guillotined by the Jacobins, after daring to demand political rights
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I didn't really start paying attention to Jacobin's role in the left until they published the TERRIBLE piece about why addressing racism is bad, actually, by the Philly DSA chair
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I've had this conversation dozens of times with white friends and colleagues. It is, I would argue, one of the major epistemological fault lines in our political culture today. tl;dr--structures/systems
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Fil sur les "plus belles églises d'Occitanie"Bien évidemment, ce sont les plus belles ou les plus importantes selon mes goûts, ce que je connais déjà bien ou bien ce qu'elles
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The word communism was first noted decades before Marx adopted it.And like every other well-known formally educated white male revolutionary writer, there was a sea of people with more opsec
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What is happening now with all the Trump parades and rallies is an unparalleled political movement in American historyIt's been brewing for decades of patriots seething while corrupt politicians and
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Thread of leftist / radical books in .pdf (free!) Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire https://envs.ucsc.edu/internships/internship-readings/freire-pedagogy-of-the-oppressed.pdf Are Prisons Obsolete by Angela Davis https://theanarchis
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Breaking - Philadelphia Officer Involved shooting:Suspect in an alleged domestic incident advanced with a knife on the officers and the officers fired. Video via @Ninja_StuntZ of the Philadelphia officer involved
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Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earthhttp://abahlali.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Frantz-Fanon-The-Wretched-of-the-Earth-1965.pdf Carlos Marighella, Mini-Manual of the Urban Guerrillahttps://socialhistoryportal.org/sites/default/files/r
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