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According to examiner.com, the Detroit Institute of Arts and a group called Let’s Save Michigan are trying to inspire the state of Michigan through Works Progress Administration-style artwork. They will accept submissions until February 15, 2010.
For what it’s worth, the winner isshould be Thor’s Mitre Saw
I’ve always felt that Marx’s theory is overly simplistic. Its simplicity makes it palatable—your opponents easy to identify: they’re the ones who have the stuff. Unfortunately, this theory of class revolution is a dead letter, as numerous real-world examples attest to the impracticability of using the State to eliminate itself (cf. every instance of State Communism in recorded history).
OK, so it’s the “Quote of Last Friday”…
In response to the occasional disagreement/dispute/argument/flamewar that arises between anarchists of different stripes on teh interwebz, at Polycentric Order, Michael comments on Why I’m Not a Voluntaryist:
Anarchism is such a radical break with the present order – in fact, so theoretical in nature (the meager handful of historical [...]
People are so preoccupied with the how-bad-things-might-become in the worst-case scenario, that they’ve entirely neglected how bad things actually are.
If you say, “Things could be worse,” I challenge you to instead imagine how things could be better.
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