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Quote for the day – June 10

10 Wednesday Jun 2015

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a nos amis, Invisible Committee

“There is a world of difference between a mass of poor people and a mass of poor people determined to act together”.

The Invisible Committee, A nos amis

Quote for the day – June 9

09 Tuesday Jun 2015

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Hermetica

Hermetica

“The universe is composed of a part that is material and a part that is incorporeal; and inasmuch as its body is made with soul in it, the universe is a living creature”.

Hermetica

Quote for the day – June 8

08 Monday Jun 2015

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modern world, René Guénon

kali yuga

“According to all the indications furnished by the traditional doctrines, we have in fact entered upon the last phase of the Kali-Yuga, the darkest period of this ‘dark age’, the state of dissolution from which it is impossible to emerge other than by a cataclysm, since it is not a mere readjustment that is necessary at such a stage, but a complete renovation”.

René Guénon, The Crisis of the Modern World

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Quote for the day – June 7

07 Sunday Jun 2015

Posted by winter oak in capitalism, civilization, socialism

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Gustav Landauer, Marxism, Russell Berman, Tim Luke

Soviet factory

“Marxism, despite its revolutionary appearance, functions in fact as an impediment to socialism… In the light of Landauer’s critique, nineteenth century scientific socialism ceases to appear as a radical critique of the status quo. Rather, behind its revolutionary pretenses, it buttresses the development of capitalist structures”.

Russell Berman and Tim Luke, Introduction to For Socialism by Gustav Landauer

[Read about Gustav Landauer on the orgrad website]

Quote for the day – June 6

06 Saturday Jun 2015

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authenticity, Paul Cudenec, The Stifled Soul of Humankind

capitalist aesthetics

“Capitalism hates authenticity, hates mystery and thus is utterly incapable of even beginning to appreciate the mystery behind the authenticity of artistic expression or of ever being able to understand why the products of its own system are so sterile and ugly”.

Paul Cudenec, The Stifled Soul of Humankind

[Read about Paul Cudenec on the orgrad website]

Quote for the day – June 5

05 Friday Jun 2015

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hope, Peter Kropotkin, revolt

Great Resist Galway street art

“Let us remember that if exasperation often drives men to revolt, it is always hope, the hope of victory, which makes revolutions”.

Peter Kropotkin, The Spirit of Revolt

[Read about Peter Kropotkin on the orgrad website]

Quote for the day – June 4

04 Thursday Jun 2015

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William Morris

Morris art

“Everything made by man’s hands has a form, which either must be beautiful or ugly; beautiful if it is in accord with Nature, and helps her; ugly if it is discordant with Nature, and thwarts her; it cannot be indifferent”.

William Morris, The Lesser Arts

[Read about William Morris on the orgrad website]

Quote for the day – June 3

03 Wednesday Jun 2015

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Cybermen, Dr Who, Kit Pedler, technology

cybermen

“So we now have an emergent robot state, which I have called the cybernarchy. It is as if a new mega-individual has evolved somewhere in the gap between political leaders and people, and it is pursuing a course of self-perpetuation regardless of any other consideration. This mega-individual is a feltwork of flesh and micro-chips, looking after itself at the expense of people”.

Kit Pedler (creator of “Cybermen” on Dr Who TV show), The Quest for Gaia: A Book of Changes

[Read about Kit Pedler on the orgrad website]

Quote for the day – June 2

02 Tuesday Jun 2015

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France, Sivens

sivens10

“Our opposition therefore goes both beyond environmentalism and against it if necessary – against all its language borrowed from technocrats, administrators and politicians. Our opposition carries within it, admittedly in a rather unformed way, the dream of another way of living, free from commodities, free from the state and free from industrial work. A life which can only develop from below and which can, necessarily, only be realised through conflict”.

Campaigners against Sivens dam in France, Sivens sans retenue: Feuilles d’automne 2014

Quote for the day – June 1

01 Monday Jun 2015

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Gustav Landauer

Anarchy is life

“Anarchy is life; the life that awaits us after we have freed ourselves from the yoke”

Gustav Landauer, Revolution and Other Writings

[Read about Gustav Landauer on the orgrad website]

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