29 Monday Feb 2016
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“A man does not live for happiness, but for the task he chooses. For the sake of that task everything, really everything, must be borne”.
Gustav Landauer, letter
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14 Sunday Feb 2016
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“It is in revolution’s fire, in its enthusiasm, its brotherhood, its aggressiveness that the image and the feeling of positive unification awakens; a unification that comes through a connecting quality: love as force”.
Gustav Landauer, Revolution and Other Writings
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01 Friday Jan 2016
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“The people, the thinkers, the poets are a powder keg, loaded with spirit and the power of creative destruction”.
Gustav Landauer, Revolution and Other Writings
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05 Thursday Nov 2015
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“It is in revolution’s fire, in its enthusiasm, its brotherhood, its aggressiveness that the image and the feeling of positive unification awakens; a unification that comes through a connecting quality: love as force”.
Gustav Landauer, Revolution and Other Writings
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04 Wednesday Nov 2015
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“The first duty of the revolution will be to make a bonfire of all existing laws as it will of all titles to property”.
Peter Kropotkin, Law and Authority
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29 Thursday Oct 2015
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“Wahn is not only every goal, every ideal, every belief in a sense of purpose of life and the world: Wahn is every banner followed by mankind; every drumbeat leading mankind into danger; every alliance that unites mankind and creates from a sum of individuals a new structure, an organism”.
Gustav Landauer, Beginnen: Aufsätze über Sozialismus
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02 Friday Oct 2015
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“Is there anyone today who questions the existence of ‘the dictatorship of finance’, of the political aims behind IMF-imposed reforms, of the ‘destruction of the environment’ by capitalist greed, of the insane arrogance of the nuclear lobby, of the barefaced lies of power, of the open corruption of the ruling class? You have to remind yourself that over the course of ten years, views once held only by radicals have now become the very stuff of common sense”.
The Invisible Committee, A nos amis
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08 Tuesday Sep 2015
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“May the revolution bring rebirth. May, since we need nothing so much as new, uncorrupted men rising up out of the unknown darkness and depths, may these renewers, purifiers, saviors not be lacking to our nation. Long live the revolution, and may it grow and rise to new levels in hard, wonderful years. May the nations be imbued with the new, creative spirit out of their task, out of the new conditions, out of the primeval, eternal and unconditional depths, the new spirit that really does create new conditions. May the revolution produce religion, a religion of action, life, love, that makes men happy, redeems them and overcomes impossible situations”.
Gustav Landauer, For Socialism
24 Monday Aug 2015
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“The baptism of the real Reformation possessed the new infinity of human hope and, from Münzer to Paraclesus and Boehme, the one and only problem was how, by the power of faith, to transmute all the evil of the earth and of Kreatürlichkeit into gold, into interiority, into shining Jerusalem, and instead of a closed and constraining astrology to opt for an utopic alchemy”
Ernst Bloch, Thomas Münzer, théologien de la révolution
22 Saturday Aug 2015
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“Freedom is involved in this process in two distinct ways. Firstly, it will be freedom in its dynamic aspect – the innate human desire for freedom – that will act as the battering ram to destroy the current system. Freedom here takes the form of energy, life-force, creating the possibility of transformation. Secondly, when the various blockages and delusions which imprison us have been cleared away, freedom in its permanent fullness will then be able to flourish”.
Paul Cudenec, Forms of Freedom
