Welcome to the site. Enjoy, contribute and above all else - stand up and be counted!
T shirts on sale now Go to Shop
If you ever need to explain what is wrong and some possible solutions - well here is a start.
The 'Ultimate Shambles' seeks to confront disharmony and discomposure by challenging the cerebrum to offer insight into the multifarious viewpoints and propositions that trouble humanity. It will provide critique, discussion, reviews, commentary and solutions.
From Foucault to Levi to Shelley to Baez to Marx to Rousseau to Zizek to Steel to Finklestein to Guevara to Klein to Guthrie to Biafra to Badiou to Ranciere to Engels to Gramsci to Lukacs to Althusser to Heidegger to Sinclair to Paine to Pilger to Zinn to you to...
We welcome contributions from anybody who aspire to be hegemonic heretics.
'My position is that it is not up to us [intellectuals] to propose. As soon as one "proposes" - one proposes a vocabulary, an ideology, which can only have effects of domination. What we have to present are instruments and tools that people might find useful. By forming groups specifically to make these analyses, to wage these struggles, by using these insturments or others: this is how, in the end, possibilities open up.
But if the intellectual starts playing once again the role that he has played for a hundred and fifty years - that of prophet in relation to what "must be", to what "must take place" - these effects of domination will return and we shall have other ideologies, functioning in the same way.'
(Michel Foucault. (1988). 'Confinement, psychiatry, prison'. In L. Kritzman, (ed.), Politics, Philosophy, Culture: Interviews and Other Writings, 1977-1984. New York: Routledge, p.197)
Arlo Guthrie & Pete Seeger - This Land is Our Land
The Experiences of the Oppressed not the Oppressors are where the Solutions can be Found (Douglas Kellner)
...One of the insights of the Philosophy of Liberation is that Western Philosophy is the philosophy of the center, of the metropoles, of white European males... and other perspectives, other positions, are condemned to the margins. On this view, Western Philosophy is the philosophy of the masters of the world, of the dominant countries, cultures, and class... Critical Theory, Poststructuralism and the Philosophy of Liberation (Please click)
The term torturers alludes to our ex guardians, the SS, and is in my opinion inappropriate: it brings to mind twisted individuals, ill born, sadist, afflicted by the original flaw. Instead, they were made of our same cloth, they were average human beings, averagely intelligent, averagely wicked: save for exceptions they were not monsters, they had our faces, but they had been reared badly. They were, for the greater part, diligent followers and functionaries: some fanatically convinced of the Nazi doctrine, many indifferent, or fearful of punishment, or desirous of a good career, or too obedient. All of them had been subjected to the terrifying miseductaion provided for and imposed by the schools created in accordance with the wishes of Hitler and the collaborators, and then completed by the SS drill. Many had joined the militia because of the prestige it conferred, because of its omnipotence, or even just to escape family problems... Let it be clear that to a greater or lesser degree all were responsible, but it must be just as clear that behind their responsibility stands that great majority of Germans, who accepted in the beginning, out of mental laziness, myopic calculation, stupidity, and national pride, the 'beautiful words' of Corporal Hitler, followed him as long as luck and the lack of scruples followed him, were swept away by his ruin, afflicted by deaths, misery and remorse, and rehabilitated a few years later as the result of an unprincipled political game.
LEVI, P; 1988. The Drowned And The Saved. P170. Sphere Books Ltd.
Percy Shelley 1816
“I hated thee, fallen tyrant! I did groan
To think that a most unambitious slave,
Like thou, shouldst dance and revel on the grave
Of Liberty.”
To think that a most unambitious slave,
Like thou, shouldst dance and revel on the grave
Of Liberty.”