“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

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

“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

“The Industrial Revolution converted the medieval serf into an industrial slave, replaced the baron with the tycoon. It created declassés, who had neither pride of ancestry nor love of tradition. The age of capital, class-struggle, and demagogy was upon man.” —Tobias Dantzig #PhilSky #Friday

“Arrakis was long ago a water world covered by oceans and its transformation into a vast desert expresses the tendency of things to change into their opposites.” Read here: thereclamation.co/the-dialectics-of-dune #PhilSky #wednesday #dune

“The labour movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress.” —Martin Luther King Jr. #MLKDay #PhilSky #politics

“The slave is sold once and for all; the proletarian must sell himself daily and hourly.” —Friedrich Engels #philosophy #capitalism #Friday #PhilSky

“We live in a neurotic civilization containing a ‘demonic character’ whereby repressed traumas are revisited again and again and again in order to re-encounter our identity.” Read now: thereclamation.co/ask-the-editor-the-demonic-nature-of-global-rearmament #PhilSky #politics #war #Iran #wednesday

“The aim of all life is death.” —Sigmund Freud #PhilSky #philosophy #monday

“The ravaging of Mexico proved that America could act with impunity toward its less-developed neighbours. Their capital and guns afforded them enormous power over a region that lacked both.” Read here: thereclamation.co/us-aggressio... #Venezuela #Friday #politics #history

“The Bolivarian Revolution has proven to be a mass movement and we have no doubt that the people will defend their sovereignty as they did during the 2002 coup attempt.” —Miguel Díaz-Canel 🇨🇺 #PhilSky #monday #venezuela

“When imperialism feels weak, it resorts to brute force. The attacks on Venezuela are a sign of weakness, ideological weakness. Nowadays almost nobody defends neoliberalism.” —Hugo Chavez #PhilSky #Venezuela

“For all its Trump-related pandemonium, 2025 did not actually move the needle away from trajectories previously established.” Happy 2026! New Year predictions here: thereclamation.co/ask-the-editor-predicting-2026 #PhilSky #philosophy #politics #newyear

“The capitalists soon had everything in their hands and nothing remained to the workers.” —Friedrich Engels #PhilSky #Tuesday #philosophy #capitalism

Many Christmas affectations may have been captured by capitalist enterprise but let’s not forget the communal elements either: time off work, family feasting, charitable giving and games. Happy holidays everyone! Read up on the history of Christmas here: thereclamation.co/how-the-capi...

“A man enslaved to money can never be just.” —Democritus #PhilSky #sunday #philosophy #greece

“Earth makes night by standing in the way of light.” —Empedocles #PhilSky #philosophy #friday

“Christmas was never a particularly religious ritual and modern Christmas is largely a capitalist construction that drives commodity sales.” Get the history of the West's favourite winter holiday here: thereclamation.co/how-the-capitalist-stole-christmas #PhilSky #Christmas #thursday

“The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil.” —Albert Einstein #PhilSky #philosophy #tuesday #Venezuela

“When the sun is at its zenith it must turn toward its setting, and at its nadir it rises toward a new dawn.” —I Ching #PhilSky #philosophy #monday

“Fascism is a false revolution. It cultivates the appearance of popular politics and a revolutionary aura without offering a genuine revolutionary class content.” —Michael Parenti #PhilSky #philosophy #politics #Saturday

Epictetus said: “If you let bullies dissuade you from your choice, you will earn their derision twice over.” Tariffs and the end of neoliberalism. Read here: thereclamation.co/ask-the-editor-carney-no-match-for-trumps-gutpolitik #philosophy #trump #thursday #PhilSky

“Highflown ways of living are items of conformity to the norm of conspicuous consumption.” —Thorstein Veblen #PhilSky #philosophy #wednesday

“Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.” —Plato #PhilSky #philosophy #Monday

“Liberation is thus a childbirth, and a painful one.” —Paulo Friere #PhilSky #philosophy #sunday #socialism

“True mental health consists in a perfect recollection of the past.” —Arthur Schopenhauer #philosophy #friday #PhilSky

“Cooperatives offer enormous pro-social and environmental benefits but this does not count toward GDP or profits—the only measures of capitalist value, even in a world on fire.” Read here: thereclamation.co/the-revolutionary-potential-of-cooperatives #thursday #PhilSky #philosophy #politics

“The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is merely useful for the sake of something else.” —Aristotle #philosophy #Tuesday #PhilSky

“Requiem for a Dream is an artifact of western capitalism evoking Ozymandias: ‘Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!’” Full analysis: thereclamation.co/25-years-of-requiem-for-a-dream #PhilSky #film #monday

“Man is the creature of circumstances.” —Robert Owen #philosophy #socialism #PhilSky #monday

“The pursuit of an ethnostate has walked Israel into a permanent state of warfare and the monstrous timeline that we find ourselves in only captures the adage: war makes fascists of us all.” Read here: thereclamation.co/ask-the-editor-to-end-fascist-terror #PhilSky #gaza #thursday

“What am I doing here in this endless winter?” —Franz Kafka #literature #philosophy #tuesday #PhilSky

“This part of the country seems to have all hell for a basement.” —Rudyard Kipling, in Alberta. #Monday #literature #PhilSky #philosophy

“All the world's a stage.” —William Shakespeare #literature #PhilSky #friday #politics

“The past cannot embed a future which leads back to its own alteration, as the alteration would inevitably deny a pathway back to that same future.” Read here: thereclamation.co/primer-and-the-impossibility-of-time-travel #PhilSky #philosophy #film #technology #thursday

“The way up is the way down.” —Heraclitus #PhilSky #philosophy #thursday

“Capitalist industry and commerce create the material conditions of a new world in the same way as geological revolutions have created the surface of the earth.” —Karl Marx #PhilSky #philosophy #tuesday

“Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.” —Thomas More #philosophy #utopia #monday #PhilSky

“The meaning of Epstein should not be partisan scorekeeping. These are crimes committed against flesh-and-blood working class children whose victimization was enabled by capitalist class power.” Read here: thereclamation.co/ask-the-editor-the-meaning-of-jeffrey-epstein #PhilSky #Friday #Trump

“The philosopher’s treatment of a question is like the treatment of an illness.” —Wittgenstein #PhilSky #wednesday #philosophy

“Any day stands equal to the rest.” —Heraclitus #PhilSky #philosophy #Greece #monday

“Every legal constitution is the product of a revolution.” —Rosa Luxemburg #PhilSky #philosophy #socialistsunday

“The great man is the one who does not lose his child's heart.” —Mencius #PhilSky #philosophy #friday

“Once the great mass of people is subordinated to market forces by way of survival, the market is free to act on them in despotic ways.” Full article here: thereclamation.co/free-markets-unfree-people #PhilSky #philosophy #capitalism #thursday #socialism

“Music represents the passion of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, they will become the wrong kind of person.” —Aristotle #PhilSky #music #tuesday #philosophy