the #American and #English #Enlightenment resulted in a massive #destruction of other groups and #cultures, destruction of #African, #Australian, #Asian societies, cultures by the English. Not forgetting the #murder and #colonization of #Irish #people, and #industrial #enslavement of the British working classes.
#quote from the #thinkingallowed #bbc #podcast
#quote from the #thinkingallowed #bbc #podcast: the #American and #English #Enlightenment resulted in a massive #destruction of other groups and #cultures, destruction of #African, #Australian, #Asian societies, cultures by the English. Not forgetting the #murder and #colonization of #Irish #people, and #industrial #enslavement of the British working classes
Back in 1905, Leon #Trotsky characterized tsarist #Russia as “a vicious combination of the #Asian #knout and the #European #stock #market.” Does this designation not hold more and more also for the Russia of today? http://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_true_blasphemy_slavoj_zhizhek_on_pussy_riot