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An die Nachgeborenen misc/poetry

Was sind das für Zeiten, wo
Ein Gespräch über Bäume fast ein Verbrechen ist
Weil es ein Schweigen über so viele Untaten einschließt!
Der dort ruhig über die Straße geht
Ist wohl nicht mehr erreichbar für seine Freunde
Die in Not sind?

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Ihr aber, wenn es soweit sein wird

—p.172 Selected Poems From Lieder, Gedichte, un Chöre; Svendborder Gedichte; and unpublished poems (102) by Bertolt Brecht
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Das Lied vom Wasserrad misc/poetry

Von den Großen dieser Erde
melden uns die Heldenlieder:
Steigend auf so wie Gestirne
gehn sie wie Gestirne nieder.
Das klingt tröstlich, und man muss es wissen.
Nur: für uns, die sie ernähren müssen
ist das leider immer ziemlich gleich gewesen.
Aufstieg oder Fall: Wer trägt die…

—p.88 From The Theater (66) by Bertolt Brecht
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the dangers of the performance ideology

The performance ideology that Piketty promotes moves – particularly in Germany – within a dangerous context. Performance ideology goes hand in hand with a chauvinism of affluence, which is expressed in Europe through racism and a hatred for supposedly ‘unproductive’ people, for example ‘lazy Greeks…

—p.68 Thomas Piketty's 'Capital in the Twenty First Century': An Introduction Capital in the Twenty-First Century--What to Make of It? (55) by Ingo Stutzle, Stephen Kaufmann
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only the market should decide the distribution of income

There is never a ‘meritocracy’ – a ‘just’ correspondence between performance and income – in capitalism. However, the idea of a just income is useful: it justifies conditions in which a discussion about just wages occurs, but not one about the relations of disposition and power that actually underl…

—p.66 Capital in the Twenty-First Century--What to Make of It? (55) by Ingo Stutzle, Stephen Kaufmann
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the capital-labour dialectic

[...] The wage does not pay for labour, but rather for the disposal of labour-power for a specific period of time. During working time, the enterprise applies labour in order to make a profit – that is to say, to extract output from the workers that has a monetary value greater than that which they…

—p.65 Capital in the Twenty-First Century--What to Make of It? (55) by Ingo Stutzle, Stephen Kaufmann