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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 16h
“He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing.” —Epicurus #PhilSky #Friday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.” —Don Marquis #PhilSky #Thursday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“What is rational is real; and what is real is rational.” —G.W.F. Hegel. #PhilSky #Tuesday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“He who speaks does not know; he who knows, does not speak.” —Lao Tzu #PhilSky #Monday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a fight to the death between the future and the past.” —Fidel Castro #PhilSky #socialistsunday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.” —Sigmund Freud #PhilSky #Saturday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“What is pernicious about the rentier economy is the exploitation of the human condition to extract hard-earned wages from value-creating people.” Full post: thereclamation.co/in-brief-gam... #PhilSky #Gambling #Thursday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“The progressive historical role of capitalism may be summed up in two brief propositions: increase in the productive forces of social labour, and the socialization of that labour.” —Vladimir Lenin #PhilSky #Tuesday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“You never look at me from the place from which I see you.” —Jacques Lacan #PhilSky #Monday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.” —Alexis de Tocqueville #SocialistSunday #PhilSky
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“One thunderbolt strikes root through everything.” —Heraclitus #PhilSky #China #Friday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“Money, as a matter of principle, makes everything the same.” —Byung-Chul Han #BookSky #PhilSky #Wednesday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“Although our lives occupy only a sliver along the time–space continuum, it is the mountain of the past that we live and die upon.” Full post: thereclamation.co/marx-and-sha... #BookSky #PhilSky #Wednesday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“We want to get our army involved with the people in productive work and remind it constantly that, without patriotic training, a soldier is only a criminal with power.” —Thomas Sankara #PhilSky #Africa
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way.” —Charles Bukowski #PhilSky #BookSky #Saturday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“The danger from advertising is that it destroys our most precious immaterial possessions: the confidence in meaningful human activity and respect for the integrity of man.” —Paul Sweezy #PhilSky #Thursday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“In other words, the more stupid one is, the more he thinks he knows.” —L. Frank Baum #PhilSky #Wednesday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.” —Confucius #PhilSky #Tuesday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“With proper context, we can see that the civil liberties and political priorities of Asia are the popular byproduct of unique histories and cultural sensitivities rather than government oppression.” Full post: thereclamation.co/in-brief-the... #China #PhilSky #Friday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“Dear youths, I warn you cherish peace divine, and in your hearts lay deep these words of mine.” —Pythagoras #PhilSky #BookSky #Wednesday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
“Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.” —Aristotle #PhilSky #Monday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
“The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others.” —Robert Owen #SocialistSunday #PhilSky
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
“The madman is not only a beggar who thinks he is a king, but also a king who thinks he is a king.” —Jacques Lacan #PhilSky #PsychSciSky #Friday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“Faith in people is an a priori requirement for dialogue.” —Paulo Freire #PhilSky #BookSky #Thursday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
“In Manitoba, the Southern Chiefs Organization have seized a limb of the once-zombifying corporate Bay monopoly and are transforming it into an institution to support the living.” Full post: thereclamation.co/historical-n... #Canada #PhilSky #Tuesday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
“A sensible man takes pleasure in what he has instead of pining for what he has not.” —Democritus #PhilSky #Monday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"The distinction between past, present and future is only an illusion, however persistent.” —Albert Einstein #PhilSky #Saturday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
“Money could not be converted into capital if wage labour did not exist.” —David Harvey #PhilSky #Thursday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
“One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.” —Erich Fromm #PhilSKy #Wednesday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.” —Averroes #PhilSky #Monday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
“What the proletarian needs, he can obtain only from this bourgeoisie, which is protected in its monopoly by the power of the state.” —Friedrich Engels #PhilSky #socialistsunday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
“It is the powerful who write the laws of the world—and the powerful who ignore these laws when expediency dictates.” —Michael Parenti #PhilSky #friday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“Romance during the age of chivalry was replaced with something far more transactional and potentially humiliating; Shakespeare’s play reflects the social anxieties brought by the commercial revolution.” Article: thereclamation.co/marx-and-sha... #BookSky #PhilSky #Thursday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
“If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” —Malcolm X #PhilSky #wednesday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
“Every body continues in its state of rest unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.” —Isaac Newton #PhilSky #monday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
“The capitalist's profit is derived from the fact that he has something to sell for which he has paid nothing.” —Karl Marx #PhilSky #socialism #saturday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
“Embedded in commodity production is the increasing abstraction of labour and progressive deterioration of social relations in which our own lives are situated.” Full post: thereclamation.co/ask-the-edit... #PhilSky #Friday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
“If I had had more time, this letter would have been shorter.” —Voltaire #PhilSky #BookSky #Thursday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
“Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.” —William Shakespeare #PhilSky #BookSky #Tuesday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
“Things are only mannequins and the great world-historical events are costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.” —Walter Benjamin #PhilSky #BookSky #monday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
“The way up and the way down are one and the same.” —Heraclitus #PhilSky #saturday #dialectics
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
“Walter White did not want to rebel against the system so much as he wanted to conquer it—by any means necessary. His descent into depravity escaped him so long as validation arrived in tidy bundles of cash.” Full post: thereclamation.co/breaking-bad... #PhilSky #breakingbad #thurday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
“If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?” —Cormac McCarthy #PhilSky #BookSky #Wednesday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
“The disarticulation of class from race, gender and sexuality has been central to the success of the neoliberal project.” —Mark Fisher #PhilSky #monday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
“Every change in the social order is the consequence of new forces of production which no longer fit the old property relations.” —Friedrich Engels #PhilSky #socialistsunday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
“Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it.” —Paulo Freire #PhilSky #socialism #friday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
“Western morality was buried under rubble alongside the bodies of Gaza’s children and the illusion of military supremacy was sunk to bottom of the Persian Gulf.” Full post: thereclamation.co/in-brief-the... #PhilSky #WeeknightWriters #thursday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
“To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.” —G.W.F. Hegel #PhilSky #BookSky #wednesday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” —Oscar Wilde #PhilSky #BookSky #tuesday
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the Reclamation @thereclamationmag.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
“Those who can’t remember the past are condemned to have it resold to them forever.” —Mark Fisher #socialistsunday #PhilSky
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