“If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it.”

—Heraclitus

#PhilSky #NoKings #Saturday

“Since a hegemonic power cannot sanction the Sun or go to war over wind, the foundation of a post-capitalist cooperative economy slowly becomes concretized.”

Full post: thereclamation.co/ask-the-edit...

#PhilSky #Thursday

“When I feed the hungry, they call me a saint. When I ask why people are hungry, they call me a communist.”

—Hélder Câmara

#PhilSky #Monday

“Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.”

—Democritus

#PhilSky #Saturday #philosophy

“The contradictions between the prevailing feudal order and a rising capitalist one are integral to Romeo and Juliet. Without this, the Montagues and Capulets would not have existed nor have entered a blood feud.”

Full post: thereclamation.co/marx-and-sha...

#philosophy #shakespeare #friday

Cuba has provided disaster relief and countless doctors to so many countries in need.

The US suffocation of Cuba is a crime against humanity. The mere threat of tariffs bought the world’s complicity in this crime.

The night is dark in Havana. But never as dark as the human soul under capitalism.

“Everything that exists deserves to perish.”

—Goethe

#PhilSky #monday

“But if the zenith of American hegemony passed over the sands of Iraq and Afghanistan, it may be Iran where the nadir is found.”

Full article: thereclamation.co/ask-the-edit...

#IranWar‌ #Iran #PhilSky #Friday

Great—for Iran!! 🇮🇷

“Our God sides with those who murder children, and our order, justice and civilization rest on mass graves.”

—Jonas Čeika

#Iran #PhilSky

“The impact of war is self-evident, since economically it is exactly the same as if the nation were to drop a part of its capital into the ocean.”

—Karl Marx

#PhilSky #socialistsunday

“No matter what happens to Iran in the near term, The Art of War predicts the fate of countries like the United States: ‘Even if a country is large, if it is militaristic it will eventually perish.’”

Full article: thereclamation.co/how-iran-can-win-according-to-sun-tzu

#PhilSky #Iran

“This may be the year when we finally just say it—we are really a nation of used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who makes us uncomfortable.”

—Hunter S. Thompson

#Iran #PhilSky

“U.S. imperialism is the greatest destroyer of human life on Earth. It feeds on piracy of the Third World. For the benefit of imperialism we live in a society either at war or producing and preparing for war at all times.”

—The Weather Underground

#Iran #SocialistSunday #PhilSky

“Gunboat diplomacy is a violent robbery at gunpoint. The first two months of 2026 have seen the Navy kill and kidnap Venezuelans, impose a cruel blockade on Cuba and surround Iran with weapons of war.”

Full post: thereclamation.co/ask-the-editor-does-gunboat-diplomacy-work

#PhilSky #thursday

“If you remain true to your principles, the people who made fun of you will admire you in time; if you let them dissuade you from your choices, you will earn their derision twice over.”

—Epictetus

#PhilSky #Wednesday

“My poverty, but not my will, consents.”

—William Shakespeare

#PhilSky #Saturday

“It is the ultimate capitalist nightmare, one where the commodity becomes self-aware and proceeds to destroy the system. Lukács said that the “self-consciousness of the commodity” is the starting point to socialist revolution.”

Full review: thereclamation.co/class-confli...

#PhilSky #Thursday

“A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving.”

—Laozi

#PhilSky #tuesday

“If you love without evoking love in return—if you fail to become a loved person, then your love is impotent, it is a misfortune.”

—Karl Marx

Happy Valentine's Day! 💘

#PhilSky #Saturday

“One can acknowledge historical oppression and also reject remedies that pit man against woman, queer against straight. Discrimination operates within the ruling class paradigm of artificial scarcity.”

Full article: thereclamation.co/ask-the-editor-marxism-and-intersectionality

#PhilSky #thursday

“Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.”

—Erich Fromm

#PhilSky #capitalism #banksy

“There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare.”

—Sun Tzu

#PhilSky #gaza #ukraine

“Contemporary governance aligns with George Washington’s description of ‘a frightful despotism’ that negates the common interest in favour of permanent minority rule.”

Read here: thereclamation.co/liberal-democracy-is-a-sham

#philosophy #friday #trump #PhilSky

“Modern bourgeois society is like the sorcerer who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells.”

—Karl Marx

#PhilSky #Epstein #Wednesday

Ask the Editor: The Meaning of Jeffrey Epstein Class conflict rears its ugly head

The Epstein files reinforce Marx’s class conflict theory, the battle for democracy and economic justice.

“These are crimes committed against flesh-and-blood working class children whose victimization was enabled by capitalist class power.”

Link: thereclamationmag.substack.com/p/ask-the-ed...

“Gaza is an experiment of the mega-rich, to show the world how they respond to rebellion. They intend to bomb us all.”

—Gustavo Petro

#gaza #PhilSky #saturday

Thank you Tasman! 🙏🏼

“The U.S.-led global order has never about hifalutin ‘democratic values.’ The trail of human rights violations, democratic overthrows, targeted assassinations and full-scale invasions is too long to claim otherwise.”

Full post here: thereclamation.co/ask-the-editor-the-rupture

#PhilSky #thursday

“Experience demonstrates that there is a slavery of wages only a little less galling in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other.”

—Frederick Douglass

#SocialistSunday #PhilSky