I Intend To Escape ......................And Come Back

The Spoils

"The victor is always right. History ascribes to the victor qualities that may or may not actually have been there. And similarly to the defeated."

US Presidential adviser Karl Rove. Quoted in "Bush At War" by Bob Woodward.

Today's Aphorism

"Happiness for Everyone Through Violence"

The sign above the gate at the Solovki Labour Camp in the former Soviet Union.

Today's Aphorism

"Opera! What a waste of time and money. It's dead boring. You can't understand a word they say, and all the birds are fat and they never get their tits out."

Morris Day Sexual Pervert, Viz.

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"When it comes to jokes I have always concurred with Schopenhauer in his belief that there's nothing funnier than the sudden apprehension of an incongruity between a general concept and a heterogenous object which is subsumed thereunder, and hence between what is abstract anbd what is perceptive.
When that happens I piss myself."

Introduction, More Viz Crap Jokes (House of Viz, 1999)

Today's Aphorism

"He who was the money owner, now strides in front as a capitalist; the possessor of labour-power follows as his labourer. The one with an air of importance, smirking, intent on business; the other hesitant, like one who is bringing his own hide to market and has nothing to expect but - a hiding."

Karl Marx, Das Kapital.

Today's Aphorism

"Selfish people, when embarked on what they deem to be a noble cause, step over people and use people without realising what they are doing. All of these people he was aligned with for that cause , none have spoken out for him or his family."

Charles Ihetu, son of the boxer Dick Tiger. An advocate of Biafran independence, Tiger is widely regarded as the greatest African boxer, but his legacy been largerly forgotten in his native Nigeria.

Today's Aphorism

"When the working class unites, there will be a lot of jobless labour leaders."

Eugene V Debs.

Today's Aphorism

"Once upon a time there was a bunch of wankers who had nothing better to do with their time than waste it on deciphering codes."

Former Boxing champion Terry Marsh, in a coded leter from prison that was intercepted by the authorities.

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"Too long have the workers of the world waited for some Moses to lead them out of bondage. He has not come, he will never come. I would not lead you out if I could; for if you could be led out, you could be led back again.
I would have you make up your minds that there is nothing that you cannot do for yourselves."

Eugene V Debs.

Today's Aphorism

"Without violent confrontation with the forces of the state the working class will never break through the deadly, stultifying condition which enmeshes it today.

The class becomes decadent without class violence.

Without a willingness to confront and attack capitalism physically, the state, authority, institutions will continue to flourish. This will mean the ever increasing subordination of every individual, not part of the ruling class, to every facet of the system."

Ian Bone - 'Anarchist'.