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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11 Wednesday Nov 2015
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“This system cannot be reformed. It is based on the destruction of the earth and the exploitation of the people. There is no such thing as green capitalism, and marketing cutesy rainforest products will not bring back the ecosystems that capitalism must destroy to make its profits. This is why I believe that serious ecologists must be revolutionaries”.
Judi Bari
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05 Thursday Nov 2015
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“Today, demanding to eat healthy food, for example, is in itself revolutionary, because in order for that demand to be met it would be necessary to abolish the totality of the social relationships under capitalism”.
Jaime Semprun, Dialogues sur l’achèvement des temps modernes
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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
23 Sunday Aug 2015
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“The deconstruction of the ideology of progress isn’t carried out in the name of conservation or of restoration, but in the name of revolution”.
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
09 Thursday Jul 2015
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“There is something much deeper behind the will to genuine revolution, to anarchy, than mere opinion. It rises from the depths of our collective soul and thus, by extension, from the natural world of which we are part. It is the vehicle of an intangible organic need for things to be made right, for humankind and the planet it dominates to once again exist in harmony with the Tao”.
Paul Cudenec, The Stifled Soul of Humankind
07 Tuesday Jul 2015
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“There will be a qualitative transformation, a new living, life-giving revelation, a new heaven and a new earth, a young and mighty world in which all our present dissonances will be resolved into a harmonious whole… Let us put our trust in the eternal spirit which destroys and annihilates only because it is the unsearchable and eternally creative source of all life. The urge to destroy is also a creative urge”.
Mikhail Bakunin, Reaction in Germany
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