“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
10 Wednesday Jun 2015
Posted class, revolution
in“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
09 Tuesday Jun 2015
Posted life, nature, spirituality
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08 Monday Jun 2015
Posted civilization, death, life, spirituality
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“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
[Read about René Guénon on the orgrad website]
07 Sunday Jun 2015
Posted capitalism, civilization, socialism
in“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
06 Saturday Jun 2015
Posted art, capitalism, civilization
in“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
05 Friday Jun 2015
Posted anarchism, revolution
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“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
04 Thursday Jun 2015
Posted art, civilisation, nature
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“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
03 Wednesday Jun 2015
Posted civilization, Uncategorized
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“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
02 Tuesday Jun 2015
Posted anarchism, civilisation, Quote
in“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
01 Monday Jun 2015
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“Anarchy is life; the life that awaits us after we have freed ourselves from the yoke”
Gustav Landauer, Revolution and Other Writings