04 Thursday Feb 2016
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“If one is to rule, and to continue ruling, one must be able to dislocate the sense of reality”.
George Orwell, 1984
[Read about George Orwell on the orgrad website]
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15 Friday Jan 2016
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“Anarchism is about ordinary people standing up to the rich and powerful – exactly what the police are there to prevent”.
Tim, anarchist who stood up to plainclothes police at Stansted Airport
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04 Monday Jan 2016
“Our ruling elites have been in power a long time and have employed tens of thousands of people to ensure that they stay there”.
Robin Ramsay, Politics and Paranoia
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29 Tuesday Dec 2015
“Unfortunately, our secret state has only one response to internal dissent or the possibility of public revelation of its own errors: smash, crush, smear, destroy, frame, cover-up and lie”.
Robin Ramsay, Politics and Paranoia
03 Thursday Dec 2015
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“Covid19 is the conduit to the Fourth Industrial Revolution now in full motion. As people come to terms with what is being forced upon humanity, we will soon regret that we did not unite to oppose draconian lockdowns and expanding surveillance that will serve to protect/insulate ruling classes from revolt”.
Cory Morningstar, April 2020
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16 Monday Nov 2015
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“We know well the means by which this association of lord, priest, merchant, judge, soldier, and king founded its domination. It was by the annihilation of all free unions: of village communities, guilds, trades unions, fraternities and medieval cities. It was by confiscating the land of the communes and the riches of the guilds. It was by the absolute and ferocious prohibition of all kinds of free agreement between men. It was by massacre, the wheel, the gibbet, the sword, and the fire that church and State established their domination and that they succeeded henceforth to reign over an incoherent agglomeration of ‘subjects’ who had no more direct union among themselves”.
Peter Kropotkin, Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal
09 Monday Nov 2015
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“The concept of exclusive property in land, as a norm to which other practices must be adjusted, was now extending across the whole globe, like a coinage reducing all things to a common measure. The concept was carried across the Atlantic, to the Indian sub-continent, and into the South Pacific, by British colonists, administrators, and lawyers, who, while not unaware of the force of local customs and land systems, struggled to construe these within their own measure of property”.
E.P. Thompson, Customs in Common
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07 Saturday Nov 2015
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“That a political party which works for the defense and growth of capitalism is called ‘Socialist’ and a despotic government ‘democratic’, and a rigged election ‘free’ are familiar linguistic – and political – features which long predate Orwell”.
Herbert Marcuse, One Dimensional Man
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21 Wednesday Oct 2015
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“Nothing better sums up the capitalist world than its prison system – where brutal oppression and cynical private profiteering combine to such lucrative effect”.
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24 Thursday Sep 2015
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“Land ownership is theft – from all the rest of us! – but is declared ‘legal’ and the state can therefore ‘legitimately’ use violence to protect that theft”.
[Read about Paul Cudenec on the orgrad website]
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