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“In those sectors in which monopolistic capital has won its victories the economic independence of many has been destroyed.”

Escape From Freedom, Erich Fromm, 1941.

Living in real time under those in power who utilize DARVO daily.
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The very reason current government did away with investing in US public education.
Front Cover: Democracy and Education an introduction to the philosophy of education by John Dewey with picture of John Dewey
October 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Ummmm…not much has changed?
The Declaration of INDEPENDENCE In Congress, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.-That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.— Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
April 8, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Alternative options to American products
March 6, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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“There is one question that many a reader will have in mind at this point: How can one reconcile the statement that the psychological basis of Nazism was the old middle class with the statement that Nazism functions in the interests of German imperialism? The answer to this question is in principle the same as that which was given to the question concerning the role of the urban middle class during the period of the rise of capitalism. In the postwar period it was the middle class, particularly the lower middle class, that was threatened by monopolistic capitalism. Its anxiety and thereby its hatred were aroused; it moved into a state of panic and was filled with a craving for submission to as well as for domination over those who were powerless. These feelings were used by an entirely different class for a regime which was to work for their own interests. Hitler proved to be such an efficient tool because he combined the characteristics of a resentful, hating, petty bour-geois, with whom the lower middle class could identify themselves emotionally and socially, with those of an opportunist who was ready to serve the interests of the German industrialists and Junkers. Originally he posed as the Messiah of the old middle class, promised the destruction of department stores, the breaking of the domination of banking capital, and so on. The record is clear enough. These promises were never fulfilled. How-ever, that did not matter. Nazism never had any” “genuine political or economic principles. It is essential to understand that the very principle of Nazism is its radical opportunism. What mattered was that hundreds of thousands of petty bourgeois, who in the normal course of dovelopment had little chance to gain money or power, as members of the Nazi bureaucracy now got a large slice of the wealth and prestige they forced the upper classes to share with them. Others who were not members af the Nazi machine were given the jobs taken away from Jews and political enemies; and as for the rest, although they did not get more bread, they got "circuses." The emotional satisfaction afforded by these sadistic spectacles and by an ideology which gave them a feeling of superiority over the rest of mankind was able to compensate them-for a time at least-for the fact that their lives had been impoverished, economically and culturally. We have seen, then, that certain socioeconomic changes, notably the decline of the middle class and the rising power of monopolistic capital, had a deep psychological effect. These effects were increased or systematized by a political ideology -as by religious ideologies in the sixteenth century -and the psychic forces thus aroused became effective in a direction that was opposite to the original economic interests of that class. Nazism resurrected the lower middle class psychologically waile participating in the destruction of its old ecioeconomic position. It mobilized its emotional energies to become an important force in the struggle for the economic and political aims of German imperialism.” Erich Fromm, Escape From Freedom, 1941
March 1, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Escape From Freedom, Erich Fromm, 1941
Erich Fromm back cover of Escape From Freedom
March 1, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Back cover of Erich Fromm Escape from Freedom
March 1, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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I saw this calendar in a comment. Is there a source? I’m having trouble finding the content creator to link to.
March 2025 Calendar of actionable steps defending democracy.
February 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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I’m guessing there are better search engine optimization words that could be input in the bar. Hope you find what you are searching for!
February 3, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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January 29, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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The Economic Collapse Timeline If This Isn't Reversed
What Needs to Happen RIGHT NOW
No matter your politics, this WILL impact you.
What You Can Do (Yes, YOU)
FINAL WARNING: This Isn't Just Politics-It's Economic
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Survival
January 29, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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This Freeze Shifts the Cost to YOU
Will Destroy Jobs
Healthcare Will Get More Expensive
Housing Will Get Worse
Your 401(k) & Investments Are at Risk
Small Businesses Will Suffer
Public Safety Will Be Stretched Thin
This Freeze is About Power, Not Just Money
January 29, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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Hopefully it’s just the amount of users.
January 28, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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“Reason requires relatedness and a sense of self. If I am only the passive receptor of impressions, thoughts, opinions, I can compare them, manipulate them-but I cannot penetrate them. Descartes deduced the existence of myself as an individual from the fact that I think.
January 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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the submission to a leader, as has happened in Fascist countries, and the compulsive conforming as is prevalent in our own democracy.” Escape From Freedom, Erich Fromm, NY, 1941.
January 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM