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you don’t really believe in astrology

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

If you’re reading this, Gemini, chances are you don’t really believe in astrology – or, at least, true to your sign, you’re in two minds about it. Saturn opposes your Sun; you might find yourself locked in a strange space of indecision and indeterminacy. If you corner…

—p.177 Salvage Magazine #2 12 Theses on Astrology (175) missing author
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you don’t really believe in astrology

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

If you’re reading this, Gemini, chances are you don’t really believe in astrology – or, at least, true to your sign, you’re in two minds about it. Saturn opposes your Sun; you might find yourself locked in a strange space of indecision and indeterminacy. If you corner…

—p.177 12 Theses on Astrology (175) missing author
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in the long run, workers everywhere are harmed

In fact, the principle of ‘An Injury to One Is An Injury to All’ is most often invoked as part of an imaginative process of proto-class formation, rather than to reflect immediate material realities. When it comes to these at an international level, the ugly fact is that trade union ‘interests’ – i…

—p.165 Is an Injury to One an Injury to All? Some Critical Thoughts on Trade-Union Internationalism TOday (163) missing author
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a clear example of mistaking joy for optimism

The Left’s euphoria over Corbyn (and before that, the SNP) is a clear example of mistaking joy for optimism. Everybody was taken by surprise, and overjoyed, by his success. But if one does not admit how bad things have gotten, Corbynmania can be seen straightforwardly as the dawn of a new era that …

—p.107 Some Final Words on Pessimism (103) by Rosie Warren
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humans have many capacities

Humans have many capacities. It’s a doomed enterprise to prefigure socialism, but we can certainly feed the drives that, as far as we can imagine, we’d like to hope will cut with its grain.

—p.48 On Social Sadism (17) by China Miéville