05 Friday Feb 2016
Posted in civilization, class
“The social distinction that counts most in the present state of things is that based on wealth, that is to say on a purely outward superiority of an exclusively quantitative order”.
René Guénon, The Crisis of the Modern World
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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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28 Monday Dec 2015
Posted in civilization, class, land
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“The anti-industrial land-defence cause is the only one that raises the social question in its entirety because, more than any other struggle, it is a struggle for life. It is a class war for the 21st century”.
Miguel Amorós, The Deceitful Art of Destroying Towns
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27 Friday Nov 2015
Posted in class, technology
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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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31 Monday Aug 2015
Posted in capitalism, class
“One man whipped with Hunger toils half-naked in the Pit, face to face with death; the other is crowned by his fellows, sitting in state with fine wines and the sound of jubilee. This is the Divine Right of Capital”.
14 Friday Aug 2015
Posted in anarchism, capitalism, class
“Underneath the conservative popular base is the substratum of the outcasts and outsiders, the exploited and persecuted of other races and other colors, the unemployed and the unemployable. They exist outside the democratic process; their life is the most immediate and the most real need for ending intolerable conditions and institutions. Thus their opposition is revolutionary even if their consciousness is not. Their opposition hits the system from without and is therefore not deflected by the system; it is an elementary force which violates the rules of the game and, in doing so, reveals it as a rigged game. When they get together and go out into the streets, without arms, without protection, in order to ask for the most primitive civil rights, they know that they face dogs, stones and bombs, jail, concentration camps, even death. Their force is behind every political demonstration for the victims of law and order. The fact that they start refusing to play the game may be the fact that marks the beginning of the end of a period”.
Herbert Marcuse, One Dimensional Man
12 Wednesday Aug 2015
Posted in capitalism, civilization, class
“The expropriation of rural ways of life achieved by the bourgeois economy stemmed from important political and social measures which wiped out land use-rights, the practicalities of subsistence, any non-fragmented knowledge, any non-mediated exchange. Above all it signalled the breaking of the historical links between peoples and their lands, their grazing areas, their rivers and their woods”.
Los Amigos de Ludd
05 Wednesday Aug 2015
“It was clearer to Winstanley than to most radicals that the state and its legal institutions existed to hold the lower classes in place”.
Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution
10 Wednesday Jun 2015
Posted in class, revolution
“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
04 Monday May 2015
Posted in civilization, class, laws
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“Enclosure, in taking the commons away from the poor, made them strangers in their own land”.
E.P. Thompson, Customs in Common
