18 Monday Jan 2016
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“All ownership of things, all land-ownership is in reality ownership of men. Whoever withholds the earth from others, from the masses, forces these others to work for him. Private ownership is theft and slave-holding”.
Gustav Landauer, For Socialism
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28 Monday Dec 2015
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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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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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11 Sunday Oct 2015
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“The plant dwells in the seed, just as the seed is only the quintessence of the infinite chain of ancestral plants. Mankind obtains its genuine existence from the humanness of the individual, just as this humanness of the individual is only the heir of the infinite generations of the past and all their mutual relationships. What has become is the becoming, the microcosm is the macrocosm. The individual is the people, the spirit is the community, the idea is the bond of unity”.
Gustav Landauer, For Socialism
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09 Friday Oct 2015
Posted in capitalism, civilization, land, socialism
“The ‘logic of production’ is neither the logic of life nor that of society. It is a small and subservient part of both. The destructive forces unleashed by it cannot be brought under control, unless the ‘logic of production’ itself is brought under control – so that destructive forces cease to be unleashed”.
E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful
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06 Tuesday Oct 2015
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“There is now a possibility of limitless proliferation in a world that has lost all sense of perspective, where sight, distance and judgement have been lost”.
Jean Baudrillard, Interview with D. Guillemot and D. Soutif
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01 Thursday Oct 2015
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“Socialists cannot avoid the struggle against land ownership. The struggle for socialism is a struggle for the land; the social question is an agrarian question. Now it can be seen what an enormous mistake the Marxists’ theory of the proletariat is. If the revolution came today, no stratum of the population would have less idea of what to do than our industrial proletarians”.
Gustav Landauer, For Socialism
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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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19 Saturday Sep 2015
Posted in land
“Diggers and Levellers looked back to the heretical tradition”.
Christopher Hill, Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution
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09 Wednesday Sep 2015
“It is a system of violence and theft which oppresses us. The pieces of paper claiming ‘ownership’ of parts of the planet are legitimised by laws, authorities and states. The violence used to maintain their theft is thus also legitimised and miraculously ceases to be violence. It is now upholding the law”.
Paul Cudenec, Forms of Freedom
