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Quote for the day – January 18

18 Monday Jan 2016

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Gustav Landauer

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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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Quote for the day – December 28

28 Monday Dec 2015

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class war, Miguel Amorós

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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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Quote for the day – November 9

09 Monday Nov 2015

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E.P. Thompson

“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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Quote for the day – October 11

11 Sunday Oct 2015

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Gustav Landauer

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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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Quote for the day – October 9

09 Friday Oct 2015

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E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful

fossil fuels

“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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Quote for the day – October 6

06 Tuesday Oct 2015

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Jean Baudrillard

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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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Quote for the day – September 24

24 Thursday Sep 2015

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Paul Cudenec

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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”.

Paul Cudenec

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Quote for the day – September 19

19 Saturday Sep 2015

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Christopher Hill, English Revolution, heresy

diggers doc

“Diggers and Levellers looked back to the heretical tradition”.

Christopher Hill, Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution

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Quote for the day – September 9

09 Wednesday Sep 2015

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Forms of Freedom, Paul Cudenec

the state

“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

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Quote for the day – July 30

30 Thursday Jul 2015

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land, Shawnees, Tecumseh

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“Will we let ourselves be destroyed in our turn without a struggle, give up our homes, our country, bequeathed to us by the Great Spirit, the graves of our dead and everything that is dear and sacred to us? I know you will cry with me, Never! Never!”

Tecumseh of the Shawnees

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