Matty

By the flower of the proletariat, I mean above all that great mass, those millions of the uncultivated, the disinherited, the miserable, the illiterates, whom Messrs. Engels and Marx would subject to their paternal rule by a strong government [word used by Engels in a letter to Carlo Cafiero] naturally for the people’s own salvation! All governments are supposedly established only to look after the welfare of the masses! By flower of the proletariat, I mean precisely that eternal “meat” (on which governments thrive), that great rabble of the people (underdogs, “dregs of society”) ordinarily designated by Marx and Engels in the picturesque and contemptuous phrase Lumpenproletariat. I have in mind the “riffraff,” that “rabble” almost unpolluted by bourgeois civilization, which carries in its inner being and in its aspirations, in all the necessities and miseries of its collective life, all the seeds of the socialism of the future, and which alone is powerful enough today to inaugurate and bring to triumph the Social Revolution.' - Bakunin

One bird, still perched. ⊡ Linen and wool hanging fragment · Egypt, c. 200–642 AD · Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

2022-09-27

painting in monastery of Santa Catalina, Quito, Ecuador

My grandfather fancies himself a preacher, though he doesn’t really have the knack for it, and I recall one time when I was a boy listening to one his interminable sermons, he said that Jesus’ intestines were probably hanging out of his body as he marched up the hill of Golgotha. Sorry, no. He never would have made it, even with Simon carrying the cross for him.

New St. Augustine writings just dropped!!!

Georges Paul Leroux - Bagnanti del Tevere - 1909

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painting in monastery of Santa Catalina, Quito, Ecuador

My grandfather fancies himself a preacher, though he doesn't really have the knack for it, and I recall one time when I was a boy listening to one his interminable sermons, he said that Jesus' intestines were probably hanging out of his body as he marched up the hill of Golgotha. Sorry, no. He never would have made it, even with Simon carrying the cross for him.