Ace of Swords (Reversed)
From The Key to the Tarot by A.E. Waite:
Ace of Swords - A hand issues from a cloud, grasping a sword, the point of which is encircled by a crown.
Divinatory Meanings: Great prosperity or great misery.
Reversed: Marriage broken off, for a woman, through her own imprudence.
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Source Used: The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/ch01.htm
Great misery. Food riots area great misery. Some may think food riots only occur when food becomes physically scarce, that there is literally not enough food to go around. This is not the case. There can be food present that is made scarce artificially through a variety of different means.
It is time we awaken the dead to serve the living, to reawaken within people the truth behind the nature of their struggles today. None of what is happening is natural, almost all of the horrors we face are made by human hands, or those horrors that are natural are changed and influenced for the worse by those same human hands.
https://encyclopediavirginia.org/1028hpr-6536753adf90f3f/
People don't remember the causes of revolt and revolution. It pays to cast an eye to the past and educate ourselves on the very similar struggles of the dead who came before. That said we must be cautious around the dead. To illustrate the need for caution I quote Marx, " The social revolution of the nineteenth century cannot take its poetry from the past but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped away all superstition about the past. The former revolutions required recollections of past world history in order to smother their own content. The revolution of the nineteenth century must let the dead bury their dead in order to arrive at its own content. There the phrase went beyond the content – here the content goes beyond the phrase."
Marx wanted to leave the dead to bury the dead, and I understand his concern. We do need to strip away the propagandistic superstitions of officially taught US history and culture and avoid smothering the required new social and historical content we must now produce. I do think it pays to know the history in the first place, we need a reference point to navigate to a better future after all.
https://www.worldhistory.org/Great_Fear/
For my part I already grow weary of the looming near future. Allow me to put my spin on Marx:
It will be enough to hear the complacent yelps of victory with which the Democrats congratulate each other on the expectedly gracious consequences of the first Tuesday in November, 2026. In their minds that first Tuesday in November has become a certain idea, a dogma, like the day of Christ’s reappearance and the beginning of the millennium in the minds of the Chiliasts. As always, weakness will take refuge in a belief in miracles, belief the enemy is overcome when he will only be conjured away in imagination, and will lose all understanding of the present in an inactive glorification of the future that is in store for it and the deeds it has in mind but does not want to carry out. Those heroes who seek to disprove their demonstrated incapacity – by offering each other their sympathy and getting together in a crowd – hill tie up their bundles, collect their laurel wreaths in advance, and occupy themselves with discounting on the exchange market the republic in name only for which they will providently organize the government personnel with all the calm of their unassuming disposition. The near future beyond November will strike them like a thunderbolt from a clear sky, and those who in periods of petty depression gladly let their inner fears be drowned by the loudest renters will perhaps convince themselves that the times are past when the cackle of geese can save the Capitol.
https://www.worldhistory.org/Great_Fear/
As for the present moment, Marx again has prescient words for us, "Universal suffrage seems to have survived only for the moment, so that with its own hand it may make its last will and testament before the eyes of all the world and declare in the name of the people itself: 'All that exists deserves to perish.'"
We stand on the brink of terrible war. We have already stepped off onto the rocks below regarding necessities such as food and fuel. The Democratic Party will play up a pseudo revolution, one made entirely in peaceful protest and elections.
From Marx, "Bourgeois revolutions, like those of the eighteenth century, storm more swiftly from success to success, their dramatic effects outdo each other, men and things seem set in sparkling diamonds, ecstasy is the order of the day – but they are short-lived, soon they have reached their zenith, and a long cat’s winge takes hold of society before it learns to assimilate the results of its storm-and-stress period soberly."
A sober take on the Democratic Party's results will indeed occur, and the problems that led to their pseudo revolution will persist. The next step will be proletarian revolution.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/index.htm
From Marx, "On the other hand, proletarian revolutions, like those of the nineteenth century, constantly criticize themselves, constantly interrupt themselves in their own course, return to the apparently accomplished, in order to begin anew; they deride with cruel thoroughness the half-measures, weaknesses, and paltriness of their first attempts, seem to throw down their opponents only so the latter may draw new strength from the earth and rise before them again more gigantic than ever, recoil constantly from the indefinite colossalness of their own goals – until a situation is created which makes all turning back impossible, and the conditions themselves call out: Hic Rhodus, hic salta!"
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Ace of Swords - A hand issues from a cloud, grasping a sword, the point of which is encircled by a crown.
Divinatory Meanings: Great prosperity or great misery.
Reversed: Marriage broken off, for a woman, through her own imprudence.
-
Source Used: The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/ch01.htm
Great misery. Food riots area great misery. Some may think food riots only occur when food becomes physically scarce, that there is literally not enough food to go around. This is not the case. There can be food present that is made scarce artificially through a variety of different means.
It is time we awaken the dead to serve the living, to reawaken within people the truth behind the nature of their struggles today. None of what is happening is natural, almost all of the horrors we face are made by human hands, or those horrors that are natural are changed and influenced for the worse by those same human hands.
https://encyclopediavirginia.org/1028hpr-6536753adf90f3f/
People don't remember the causes of revolt and revolution. It pays to cast an eye to the past and educate ourselves on the very similar struggles of the dead who came before. That said we must be cautious around the dead. To illustrate the need for caution I quote Marx, " The social revolution of the nineteenth century cannot take its poetry from the past but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped away all superstition about the past. The former revolutions required recollections of past world history in order to smother their own content. The revolution of the nineteenth century must let the dead bury their dead in order to arrive at its own content. There the phrase went beyond the content – here the content goes beyond the phrase."
Marx wanted to leave the dead to bury the dead, and I understand his concern. We do need to strip away the propagandistic superstitions of officially taught US history and culture and avoid smothering the required new social and historical content we must now produce. I do think it pays to know the history in the first place, we need a reference point to navigate to a better future after all.
https://www.worldhistory.org/Great_Fear/
For my part I already grow weary of the looming near future. Allow me to put my spin on Marx:
It will be enough to hear the complacent yelps of victory with which the Democrats congratulate each other on the expectedly gracious consequences of the first Tuesday in November, 2026. In their minds that first Tuesday in November has become a certain idea, a dogma, like the day of Christ’s reappearance and the beginning of the millennium in the minds of the Chiliasts. As always, weakness will take refuge in a belief in miracles, belief the enemy is overcome when he will only be conjured away in imagination, and will lose all understanding of the present in an inactive glorification of the future that is in store for it and the deeds it has in mind but does not want to carry out. Those heroes who seek to disprove their demonstrated incapacity – by offering each other their sympathy and getting together in a crowd – hill tie up their bundles, collect their laurel wreaths in advance, and occupy themselves with discounting on the exchange market the republic in name only for which they will providently organize the government personnel with all the calm of their unassuming disposition. The near future beyond November will strike them like a thunderbolt from a clear sky, and those who in periods of petty depression gladly let their inner fears be drowned by the loudest renters will perhaps convince themselves that the times are past when the cackle of geese can save the Capitol.
https://www.worldhistory.org/Great_Fear/
As for the present moment, Marx again has prescient words for us, "Universal suffrage seems to have survived only for the moment, so that with its own hand it may make its last will and testament before the eyes of all the world and declare in the name of the people itself: 'All that exists deserves to perish.'"
We stand on the brink of terrible war. We have already stepped off onto the rocks below regarding necessities such as food and fuel. The Democratic Party will play up a pseudo revolution, one made entirely in peaceful protest and elections.
From Marx, "Bourgeois revolutions, like those of the eighteenth century, storm more swiftly from success to success, their dramatic effects outdo each other, men and things seem set in sparkling diamonds, ecstasy is the order of the day – but they are short-lived, soon they have reached their zenith, and a long cat’s winge takes hold of society before it learns to assimilate the results of its storm-and-stress period soberly."
A sober take on the Democratic Party's results will indeed occur, and the problems that led to their pseudo revolution will persist. The next step will be proletarian revolution.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/index.htm
From Marx, "On the other hand, proletarian revolutions, like those of the nineteenth century, constantly criticize themselves, constantly interrupt themselves in their own course, return to the apparently accomplished, in order to begin anew; they deride with cruel thoroughness the half-measures, weaknesses, and paltriness of their first attempts, seem to throw down their opponents only so the latter may draw new strength from the earth and rise before them again more gigantic than ever, recoil constantly from the indefinite colossalness of their own goals – until a situation is created which makes all turning back impossible, and the conditions themselves call out: Hic Rhodus, hic salta!"
https://mahindranursery.com/products/red-rose-plant