31 Sunday Jan 2016
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“The mutual-aid tendency in man has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution of the human race, that it has been maintained by mankind up to the present time, notwithstanding all vicissitudes of history”.
Peter Kropotkin, Mutual Aid
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30 Saturday Jan 2016
Posted in nature, spirituality
“There are mystical moments when we seem to stop existing as an individual and are absorbed into everything that surrounds us – trees, mountains, rivers, wildlife. This is not an illusion that we are experiencing, but the falling-away of an illusion”.
Paul Cudenec, Forms of Freedom
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29 Friday Jan 2016
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“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall have made thought-crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it”.
George Orwell, 1984
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28 Thursday Jan 2016
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“Every child that is coming into being rests, like all that is coming into being, in the womb of the great mother, the undivided primal world that precedes form”.
Martin Buber, I and Thou
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27 Wednesday Jan 2016
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“The outbreak of war in 1914 showed these financial capitalists at their worst, narrow in outlook, ignorant, and selfish, while proclaiming, as usual, their total devotion to the social good”.
Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope
[Quoted in The Great Racket by Paul Cudenec]
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26 Tuesday Jan 2016
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“One of the essential themes of this critique, which resurfaces like an obsession in the work of writers, poets, philosophers and historians, is the clash between Kultur, a spiritual realm of ethical, religious or aesthetic values, and Zivilisation, the vulgar materialist world of economic and technological progress. If capitalism is, according to Max Weber’s mercilessly perceptive expression, the disenchantment of the world (Entzauberung der Welt), then anti-capitalist Romanticism has to be seen primarily as a despairing and nostalgic attempt at the re-enchantment of the world”.
Michael Löwy, Rédemption et utopie: le judaïsme libertaire en Europe centrale
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25 Monday Jan 2016
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“The wounds that mass society inflicts on the individual are real indicators of the dominant lie. The individual’s lack of integration into his or her environment is literally traumatic: the loss of common references, anonymity and fear lead to the collapse of socialisation, a lack of solidarity, a neurotic desire for safety, extremely dysfunctional behaviour and to everything which paves the pathological way for bulimia, anorexia, addiction, compulsive consumption, hypochondria, stress, depression and other modern syndromes”.
Miguel Amorós, The Totalitarian Town
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24 Sunday Jan 2016
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“The natural force of passion has a more immediate hold over man than that artificial and laboriously acquired discipline of order and moderation, justice and morality. Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion”.
Georg Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of World History
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23 Saturday Jan 2016
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“It is time for the insight that there is no individual, but only unities and communities. It is not true that collective names designate only a sum of individuals: on the contrary, individuals are only manifestations and points of reference, electric sparks of something grand and whole”.
Gustav Landauer, Skepsis und Mystik
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22 Friday Jan 2016
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“The unfortunate thing is that Socialism, as usually presented, is bound up with the idea of mechanical progress, not merely as a necessary development but as an end in itself, almost as a kind of religion”.
George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
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