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all the hours stolen for gas bills misc/poetry

[...] And, friends
It is rotten, to have had history pull you up and spit you
Out again, for a few good moments, for nothing more
Than debt and waged servitude, all the hours stolen for gas bills,
Their world not built for you, its monstrous incursions
Of spectacular boredom, the she…

—p.158 Salvage #5: Contractions On Defeat (158) missing author
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the utopias of the twenty-first century

[...] Paul Celan distinguished between u-topia and utopia. U-topia, literally 'no-place,' is a nonexisting locus, whereas utopia meas a hope, an expectation, a vision of the future, something not existing yet. According to Ernst Bloch, utopia is a prefiguration, the realm of the 'not yet' (_noch n…

—p.156 Melancholy Images, from Left Wing Melancholia: Marxis, History and Memory (137) by Enzo Traverso
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retreated into a prison of fear and suffering

[...] she had retreated into a prison of fear and suffering whereas her sons had chosen the struggle: 'they looked for life, and their reasons were stronger than mine.' They did not look for sacrifice or martyrdom and their political choice was rooted in a vital desire of freedom. 'What survives is…

—p.153 Melancholy Images, from Left Wing Melancholia: Marxis, History and Memory (137) by Enzo Traverso
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all has to be rebuilt misc/mistakes

[...] Like Dionysus in Greek mythology, Lenin could reborn. This is not an announcement of victory; it is a socialist wager, based on the recognition that all has to be rebuilt.

—p.149 Melancholy Images, from Left Wing Melancholia: Marxis, History and Memory (137) by Enzo Traverso
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all has to be rebuilt misc/mistakes

[...] Like Dionysus in Greek mythology, Lenin could reborn. This is not an announcement of victory; it is a socialist wager, based on the recognition that all has to be rebuilt.

—p.149 Melancholy Images, from Left Wing Melancholia: Marxis, History and Memory (137) by Enzo Traverso