Essentially, industrial agriculture relies on the harvesting of ghost acreage (the fossilised photosynthetic production of ecosystems millions of years ago) to produce food at the present rate.

Submitted by Ant at November 10, 2018 at 9:03 PM (edited at November 10, 2018 at 9:04 PM)

"When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade without further introduction" - Mark Twain imgur.com

Submitted by gorfd at October 31, 2018 at 11:49 AM

white people rly created the conditions for climate change & forced indigenous folks to give up land & resources in the name of "modernization" and have the caucasity to ask how we got to this point & place the blame on poor black & brown ppl for not being vegan n driving teslas twitter.com

Submitted by Tequila_Wolf at October 15, 2018 at 3:54 PM

Xi Jinping quote about dismissing history

Submitted by Communism_not_Barbarism at October 9, 2018 at 8:07 AM

"To call for Justice in the face of this world is to ask a monster to babysit your children. Anyone who knows the underside of power immediately ceases to respect it. Deep down, the masters have always been anarchists. It’s just that they can’t stand for anyone else to be that."

Submitted by Tequila_Wolf at October 7, 2018 at 9:25 PM

Over the course of the nineteenth century in particular, this [long history of Black conscious, anticapitalist, abolitionist] resistance was to a large extent driven by international anarchism, the principal vehicle for opposition movements against capitalism, slavery, and imperialism. - Mbembe

Submitted by Tequila_Wolf at October 7, 2018 at 2:57 PM (edited at October 7, 2018 at 3:20 PM)

Rosa Luxemburg, referring to the Russian Marxists, stated: “It is interesting to observe that Russian Marxists are developing more strongly into ideological champions of capitalism.”

Submitted by Ant at October 5, 2018 at 12:39 PM

Roderick Long on Regulation

Submitted by selver at October 3, 2018 at 11:59 PM

"When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill" azquotes.com

Submitted by ziq at September 20, 2018 at 9:59 AM (edited at September 20, 2018 at 11:23 AM)

Tolkien on Anarchy i.imgur.com

Submitted by ziq at September 11, 2018 at 12:09 PM (edited at September 11, 2018 at 12:10 PM)

"When the missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land and the missionaries had the Bible. They taught us how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the bible." Jomo Kenyatta coinsh.red

Submitted by Tequila_Wolf at September 1, 2018 at 7:39 PM

From Angela Davis's “Are Prisons Obsolete?”

Submitted by Tequila_Wolf at September 1, 2018 at 5:17 PM

An Emma Goldman quote for discussion, around how we are fools for pouring our lives into rousing people's sensibilities and though we see the futility in it we don't stop

Submitted by Tequila_Wolf at August 26, 2018 at 9:05 PM

We were those, who knew [...] - Roger Willemsen coinsh.red

Submitted by lookin4 at August 23, 2018 at 5:11 PM

“Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.” - James Baldwin

Submitted by Ant at August 2, 2018 at 4:24 PM

One of the most painful truths about non-consensual power is that those who are victimised by such power often respond by dreaming not of a liberated and egalitarian society, but of a world in which that power flows through their hands instead of the hands of their masters. - Lewis Call

Submitted by Ant at July 13, 2018 at 12:02 PM

When people talk about entrepreneurs being the ones taking on the risk, they always fail to mention what it is they risk: which is merely having to lose their life of privilege and join the rest of humanity in laboring for a living. coinsh.red

Submitted by Tequila_Wolf at July 9, 2018 at 7:18 AM

"What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is a constant victim." - Frederick Douglass

Submitted by sudo at July 4, 2018 at 11:55 AM

I'm wearing my little wristband, 'What Would John Linnell Do?". For John is mischievous, and crafty. - John Linnell

Submitted by Dumai at June 23, 2018 at 10:52 AM

if you're queer you get double XP this month

Submitted by ergdj5 at June 11, 2018 at 8:25 PM

"Leisure is nonwork for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work. Many people return from vacation so beat that they look forward to returning to work so they can rest up."

Submitted by Ant at June 6, 2018 at 10:04 AM (edited at June 6, 2018 at 10:09 AM)

All of us, without exception, are obliged to live, more or less, in contradiction with our ideals; but we are anarchists and socialists because, and in so far as, we suffer by this contradiction, and seek to make it as small as possible.

Submitted by retiredaccount at May 28, 2018 at 7:06 PM

Malcom X quotes that still ring true – he understood that we can’t expect a racist system to dismantle itself afropunk.com

Submitted by ergdj5 at May 19, 2018 at 10:54 PM

Anarchism, “far from being a speculative vision of a future society . . . is a description of a mode of human organization, rooted in the experience of everyday life, which operates side by side with, and in spite of, the dominant authoritarian trends of our society” - Colin Ward

Submitted by Ant at May 10, 2018 at 2:36 PM

"Conversion and repentance -- those words used which Christians of all persuasions use so glibly -- involve going down into the chaotic waters of Christ's death ... Being unmade to be remade." - Rowan Williams

Submitted by Dumai at May 9, 2018 at 4:59 PM (edited at May 9, 2018 at 4:59 PM)

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