29 Thursday Oct 2015
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“Usurers are the greatest Lords and princes of the realm. Greatness comes, not to those who serve the gods, but to those who serve the devil… ”
Fredy Perlman, Against His-story, Against Leviathan!
[Read about Fredy Perlman on the orgrad website]
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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
[Read about Gustav Landauer on the orgrad website]
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09 Friday Oct 2015
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“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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24 Friday Jul 2015
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“At the same time as they proclaim their urgent desire to liberate themselves from the dead hand of tradition, anarchists like to believe that their roots run deep into the past, and the paradox is only apparent”.
George Woodcock, The Anarchist Reader
07 Sunday Jun 2015
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“Marxism, despite its revolutionary appearance, functions in fact as an impediment to socialism… In the light of Landauer’s critique, nineteenth century scientific socialism ceases to appear as a radical critique of the status quo. Rather, behind its revolutionary pretenses, it buttresses the development of capitalist structures”.
Russell Berman and Tim Luke, Introduction to For Socialism by Gustav Landauer
16 Saturday May 2015
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“Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization”.
William Morris, Why I Became a Socialist
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