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Zahtjevi maksimalizacije profita i akumulacije kapitala moraju, u konačnici, preuzeti primat nad, primjerice, pravednošću, ekološkom održivošću itd. Nije to pitanje pohlepe ili mana individualnih kapitalista. Sistem, naravno, podupire kulturu pohlepe, ali tržišni imperativi uvjet su preživljavanja kapitalizma i nameću se čak i najmanje pohlepnim i najodgovornijim kapitalistima. Kakvog to utjecaja u kapitalističkim društvima ima na demokraciju? Stvar je u tome da kapitalizam ograničava demokraciju ne tako da ograničava distribuciju političkih prava (koja u kapitalističkim društvima mogu biti univerzalno distribuirana na način koji u predkapitalističkim društvima nije bio moguć), nego tako da ograničava doseg političkog djelovanja, stavljajući naš život pod vlast “ekonomije” i izvan dohvata demokratske odgovornosti. Kada sam rekla da je demokratski kapitalizam veća utopija od socijalizma, mislila sam na to da nijedan sistem vođen imperativima kapitalističkog tržišta – a to se odnosi i na “socijalno tržište” – ne može izbjeći podvrgavanje ograničavanju političkog djelovanja i demokracije.

We are living in an age in which the behavioral sciences have become inescapable. The findings of social psychology and behavioral economics are being employed to determine the news we read, the products we buy, the cultural and intellectual spheres we inhabit, and the human networks, online and in real life, of which we are a part. Aspects of human societies that were formerly guided by habit and tradition, or spontaneity and whim, are now increasingly the intended or unintended consequences of decisions made on the basis of scientific theories of the human mind and human well-being.

She lived with us for 56 years. She raised me and my siblings without pay. I was 11, a typical American kid, before I realized who she was.

Foul-mouthed blonde woman launches herself at Hawaiian shirt-wearing reveller after he throws chips in her face and jokes she is in her 60s in takeaway shop brawl



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4843436/Shocking-moment-foul-mothed-blonde-attacks-man.html

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She lived with us for 56 years. She raised me and my siblings without pay. I was 11, a typical American kid, before I realized who she was.

Neverovatna priča.

i said, do you know what's interesting is how confident you are about your ideas and in general how white dudes have these ideas, like you're so confident about this muslim travel ban and you're so confident about the mexican wall, but you're never been right, you've never been on the ethical side of history - every time in the entire course of history and yet you have confidance of someone who is always right and can't get anything wrong

‘Today on the Western Front,” the German sociologist Max Weber wrote in September 1917, there “stands a dross of African and Asiatic savages and all the world’s rabble of thieves and lumpens.” Weber was referring to the millions of Indian, African, Arab, Chinese and Vietnamese soldiers and labourers, who were then fighting with British and French forces in Europe, as well as in several ancillary theatres of the first world war.


Faced with manpower shortages, British imperialists had recruited up to 1.4 million Indian soldiers. France enlisted nearly 500,000 troops from its colonies in Africa and Indochina. Nearly 400,000 African Americans were also inducted into US forces. The first world war’s truly unknown soldiers are these non-white combatants.

The liturgies of Remembrance Day, and evocations of the beautiful long summer of 1913, deny both the grim reality that preceded the war and the way it has persisted into the 21st century. Our complex task during the war’s centenary is to identify the ways in which that past has infiltrated our present, and how it threatens to shape the future: how the terminal weakening of white civilisation’s domination, and the assertiveness of previously sullen peoples, has released some very old tendencies and traits in the west.