Before Ken MacLeod pointed to this video, about the Haitian response to Robertson’s garbage, I’d never actually heard the exact words of Robertson’s remark:
Notice, then, that one of Robertson’s claims is that the Haitians (who revolted in the 1790s) had been under the rule of Napoleon III (who came to power in 1851).
Well, Robertson does say “Napoleon III or whatever,” so I guess his statement is saved by its second disjunct.
Check out Kevin Carson on Rachel Carson, DDT, and global warming. (And don’t miss ex-agorist J. Neil Schulman’s creative interpretive stylings in the comments section.)
Check out Charles’ latest Freeman article, this one on the healthcare debate.
(The title of this blog post comes from a piece by Richard Mitchell.)
Following a link from Tom Knapp, I took a look at Darcy Richardson’s book Others: Third-Party Politics From the Nation’s Founding to the Rise and Fall of the Greenback-Labor Party via Amazon’s “look inside” feature, and found a chapter titled – in gigantic, hard-to-miss font – “Spoilers: Third-Party Candidates Wreck Havoc on the Two-Party System.”
Admittedly, the publisher is iUniverse, so one doesn’t really expect a big budget for proofreading. Still, this wreaks to high heaven ….
I came from a real tough neighborhood.
I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand.
– Rodney Dangerfield
According to Simon Read, in Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Anarchism, But Were Afraid to Ask: “The English anarchist Colin Ward calls anarchism the cement that holds the bricks of society.”
That’s a great line, paradoxical-sounding but true (though I usually quote it as “Anarchy is the glue that holds society together”). It’s a more succinct, and more radical, version of Paine’s “Great part of that order …” passage. (See also Emerson’s “hooks and eyes” line.) But where, exactly, does Colin Ward say it – if he does?
After looking through some Ward books I own and doing some internet searches (as well as searches through Ward’s books via Amazon’s “look/search inside” feature), I can’t find any place where he says this – though I did find a passage assigning the social-cement role to human solidarity, and another assigning it to music-making.
Can any of my readers recognise/confirm/disconfirm this quote?