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Quote for the day – November 30

30 Monday Nov 2015

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“Now even the illusion of democracy is at risk with far-reaching consequences into all aspects of our lives. We don’t need to look abroad for terrorist threats: currently the greatest threat to us all is closer to home, in the heart of our government, whose blatant arrogance and disrespect for democratic process and destructive denial of human rights knows no bounds”.

Anti-fracking campaigner Sue Marshall of Preston New Road, Lancashire (Acorn 18)

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Quote for the day – November 29

29 Sunday Nov 2015

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“The idea that we cannot have complete unrestricted freedom is based on the assumption that human beings cannot be trusted with that. The idea that we cannot be trusted is based on the assumption that there is no such thing as an innate tendency to goodness and co-operation. The idea that there is no innate tendency to goodness is based on the assumption that goodness is an artificial construct devoid of any practical content, rather than an inherent aspect of humanity’s ability to survive. The idea that this innate goodness has nothing to do with survival is based on the assumption that humanity is merely a collection of individuals, with their own personal survival as a priority, rather than a social organism with collective survival as its aim”.

Paul Cudenec, Forms of Freedom

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Quote for the day – November 28

28 Saturday Nov 2015

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“The reasoning currently in vogue is simple: if you love democracy, you have to defend it; to defend it you have to fight its enemies; to fight the enemies of democracy, no sacrifice is too great: the nobility of the end justifies every means; no democracy for the enemies of democracy! Something which was never essentially a democracy has now visibly ceased being so”.

Gianfranco Sanguinetti, On Terrorism and the State (1980)

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Quote for the day – November 27

27 Friday Nov 2015

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“The anti-industrial critique does not deny the class struggle, it preserves and surpasses it and, moreover, class struggle cannot exist in today’s world other than in the form of anti-industrial struggle”.

Miguel Amorós, Elementary Foundations of the Anti-Industrial Critique

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Quote for the day – November 26

26 Thursday Nov 2015

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“The thought, and consequently the action, of the mass are kept under iron pressure – for which reason, and for which reason only, men are permitted to be readers and voters – that is, in a dual slavery – while the parties become the obedient retinues of a few, and the shadow of coming Caesarism already touches them”.

Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West

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Quote for the day – November 23

23 Monday Nov 2015

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“I have never said that the secret services were behind every single attack, given that these days even a Molotov cocktail or a workplace sabotage are considered to be ‘attacks’: but I have said, and I have been saying for nearly ten years now, that all spectacular acts of terrorism are either remote-controlled or directly carried out by our secret services”.

Gianfranco Sanguinetti, On Terrorism and the State (1980)

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