“We see the Night when we look a human being in the eye, looking into a Night which turns terrifying. From this eye the night of the world hangs out toward us.” —G.W.F. Hegel #PhilSky #friday

“There is exceptional wickedness in Iago’s deceptions, convincing Othello that his wife was unfaithful. But interest in the play lingers due to Shakespeare’s unique choice of a Moorish protagonist.” Full post: thereclamation.co/marx-and-sha... #PhilSky #wednesday #Shakespeare

Farmers weeding at noon, Sweat down the field soon. Who knows food on a tray Thanks to their toiling day? —Li Shen, Toiling Farmers #PhilSky #poetry #tuesday

“The peculiar nature of economics, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.” —Karl Marx #socialistsunday #PhilSky

Great share. For the unfamiliar, it is important to understand the broad applications of Marxism that have found success in many countries, especially China. Socialism is adaptable to the social and cultural circumstances of any nation.

“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.” —Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. #PhilSKy #Friday

“Globalism is an image of the liberal capitalist order. Corporate clubs like the WEF draw directly from the ruling class and organizations like the UN are subsidiary to global commerce and economic interdependence.” Full post: thereclamation.co/in-brief-who-are-the-globalists #PhilSky #Tuesday

“I see the furrow Lenin left sown with the unshatterable seed of a new life for mankind, and cast deep below the rolling tides of storm and lightning, mighty crops for the ages to reap.” —Helen Keller #PhilSky #Monday

“Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners.“ —William Shakespeare, Othello #PhilSky #Saturday

“Nietzsche is in line with Nazism and generations of intellectuals molded his thought for the the Third Reich. Nietzsche’s influence on Nazism is not to be discarded. Evident is their ideas of war and a caste system based on eugenics.” —Daniel Tutt Exactly right: thereclamation.co/hitlers-phil...

“Nietzsche believed that only a rigid social hierarchy replete with slavery and the erasure of women from the public sphere could provide fertile ground to his ‘overman’ ideal.” Full post: thereclamation.co/hitlers-phil... #PhilSky #Nietzsche #wednesday

“Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.” —Karl Marx, born on this day. #PhilSky #tuesday

“Satisfaction linked with dishonour or with harm to others is a prison for the seeker.” —Zoroaster #PhilSky #sunday

“The Communist Manifesto is a remarkable piece of almost apocalyptic literature.” —China Miéville #PhilSky #socialism #saturday

“Karl Marx recognized fossil fuels as a foundational mean to the capitalist mode of production because their dense energy content allowed for the intensification of human labour and factory output.” Full post: thereclamation.co/ask-the-editor-oil-demand-and-destruction #PhilSky #oil #Iran

“Individual capitalists necessarily act in such a way as to de-stabilize capitalism.” —David Harvey #PhilSky #wednesday

“Prometheus is the most eminent saint and martyr in the philosophical calendar.” —Karl Marx #PhilSky #socialistsunday

“It is Ophelia that bears the brunt of Hamlet’s dislocation, his rage against his animalistic propensities and she becomes the focus of his disgust with the whole sexual process.” Full post: thereclamation.co/marx-and-shakespeare-hamlets-alienation #PhilSky #Shakespeare #thursday

“Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.” —Marx, Eighteenth Brumaire #PhilSky #wednesday

The two Iranian victory conditions were depletion of enemy air defences and economic stress on the U.S. and her allies. Despite bombardment, the relative ease by which Iran achieved both targets leaves little doubt about the ultimate victor. #Iran #PhilSky thereclamation.co/how-iran-can...

“Truth is best of all that is good.” —the Avesta #PhilSky #sunday #Iran

“Capitalism favours commercial expansion and classical slave economies favoured military conquest, and this is reflected in the democratic forms that each system produced.” Full post: thereclamation.co/ask-the-editor-is-democracy-compatible-with-capitalism #PhilSky #democracy #capitalism

“For in this sleep of death what dreams may come…” —Shakespeare #PhilSky #Tuesday

“But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead.” —Aeschylus #PhilSky #Easter #Sunday

“The philosophical question is this: does human nature corrupt civilization or does civilization corrupt human nature?” Full post here: thereclamation.co/we-are-ruled... #PhilSky #Thursday

“North America was that part of the European capitalist system which had been the most direct beneficiary of the massacre of the American Indians and the enslavement of Africans.” —Walter Rodney #PhilSky #wednesday

“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

“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