"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)

“From the moment the child enters the public school he is trained to submit to authority, to do the will of others as a matter of course, until the result that habits of mind are formed which in adult life are all to the advantage of the ruling class” - Kelly

Submitted by Ant at May 9, 2018 at 4:31 PM

“To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied on, directed, legislated, regimented, closed in, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, assessed, evaluated, censured, commanded” - Proudhon

Submitted by Ant at May 9, 2018 at 11:54 AM

A political program which does not explicitly recognize the need for deschooling is not revolutionary. - Ivan Illich

Submitted by Ant at May 8, 2018 at 12:49 PM

"[Anarchism means] freedom for everybody ... with the only limit of the equal freedom for others; which does not mean ... that we recognise, and wish to respect, the ‘freedom’ to exploit, to oppress, to command, which is oppression and certainly not freedom” - Errico Malatesta

Submitted by Ant at May 2, 2018 at 8:48 PM

Ancestry DNA commercials: You too can be Native American for just $59.99 coinsh.red

Submitted by Tequila_Wolf at May 2, 2018 at 12:04 PM

White liberals love to pretend that racism is a "conservative thing" to they can ignore their own racist thoughts and behaviours coinsh.red

Submitted by Tequila_Wolf at May 2, 2018 at 12:01 PM

Unlearning ableism requires a fundamentally anti-capitalist change in perspective. Specifically, it necessitates that you believe in the inherent worth of human beings, regardless of someones social position or productive potential coinsh.red

Submitted by Tequila_Wolf at May 2, 2018 at 11:58 AM

"Concern for the symbol has completely disappeared from our science..."

Submitted by Dumai at April 30, 2018 at 8:53 PM

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