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Quote for the day – November 30

30 Monday Nov 2015

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Edward Carpenter

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“This is no true Democracy. Here in this ‘each for himself’ is no rule of the Demos in every man, nor anything resembling it. Here is no solidarity such as existed in the ancient tribes and primaeval society, but only disintegration and a dust-heap”.

Edward Carpenter, Civilisation: Its Cause and Cure, and other essays

[Read about Edward Carpenter on the orgrad website]

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Quote for the day – November 29

29 Sunday Nov 2015

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Forms of Freedom, Paul Cudenec

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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 word ‘cybernetic’ comes from the Greek root ‘cyber’, meaning ‘to govern’. Computer technology allows multinational corporations to govern and manipulate in an insidious and ubiquitous way, to channel our frustrations, to stop us from asking fundamental questions”.

Françoise d’Eaubonne

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Quote for the day – November 27

27 Friday Nov 2015

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Miguel Amorós

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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

[Read about Miguel Amorós on the orgrad website]

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Quote for the day – November 26

26 Thursday Nov 2015

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Paul Cudenec, The Green One

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“Where else do you source your sense of rightness, of dharma, if not from that intangible and universal sense of collective human wisdom?”

Paul Cudenec, The Green One

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Quote for the day – November 25

25 Wednesday Nov 2015

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Ferdinand Tönnies, Gesellschaft

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“The merchants or capitalists are the natural masters and rulers of the Gesellschaft. The Gesellschaft exists for their sake. It is their tool”.

Ferdinand Tönnies, Community and Society

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Quote for the day – November 24

24 Tuesday Nov 2015

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John Cowper Powys

 

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“Money and machines between them dominate the civilized world. Between them, the power of money and the power of the machine have distracted the minds of our western nations from those eternal aspects of life and nature the contemplation of which engenders all noble and subtle thoughts”.

John Cowper Powys, The Meaning of Culture

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Quote for the day – November 23

23 Monday Nov 2015

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Gianfranco Sanguinetti

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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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Quote for the day – November 22

22 Sunday Nov 2015

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E.F. Schumacher

The Only Sustainable Growth is Degrowth

“It does not require more than a simple act of insight to realise that infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility”.

E.F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful

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Quote for the day – November 21

21 Saturday Nov 2015

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Miguel Amorós

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“Factories, machines and bureaucracies are the real pillars of capitalist oppression”.

Miguel Amorós, Elementary Foundations of the Anti-Industrial Critique 

[Read about Miguel Amorós on the orgrad website]

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