tag: capitalism

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• Tuesday 21 April 2009

  who built the city?

  A comment on the Brecht poem in this post reminded me about thoughts that sometimes cross my mind when I’m wandering around London looking at the buildings. Like in the City, where there are many big old buildings and some impressive new ones too.
  They were built by slaves.
  I don’t mean that the people who put [...]

  posted by red at 12:43 am in capitalism, class, racism | 3 comments

• Sunday 19 April 2009

  questions from a worker who reads

  Who raised it up so many times?
  I have been walking around with a copy of this poem in my pocket for a while…
  Questions from a worker who reads
  by Bertolt Brecht
  Who built Thebes of the seven gates?
  In the books you will find the names of kings.
  Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock?
  And Babylon, many [...]

  posted by red at 2:00 am in class, culture, life | 3 comments