The white conservatives aren't friends of the Negro either, but they at least don't try to hide it. They are like wolves; they show their teeth in a snarl that keeps the Negro always aware of where he stands with them. ------> Submitted by Lettuce on July 5, 2023 at 2:55 AM (edited on July 5, 2023 at 2:58 AM) 4 comments 16
Give a man a fire and he’s warm for a day, but set fire to him and he’s warm for the rest of his life - Terry Pratchett Submitted by Fool on January 3, 2024 at 10:25 AM No comments 15
The United States is not at war; the United States is war. - Sora Han Submitted by Tequila_Wolf on October 29, 2023 at 12:16 AM No comments 14
"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 An_Old_Big_Tree on September 1, 2018 at 7:39 PM No comments 13
"I was grown up and still believed in nymphs and fairies; and if I don't miss those beliefs, I have a right to complain about how I was made to lose them." — Proudhon Submitted by subrosa on April 15, 2023 at 9:47 AM No comments 12
Not middle class, not a slacktivist, not being trained for management, not a worthless traitor to the revolution. An actual worker. Not at an ngo or academia or the media. Real labor. Real organizing. Real socialism. -/u/actualworker Submitted by Lettuce on November 17, 2023 at 5:58 PM No comments 11
After seizing state power, the victors have a powerful interest in moving the revolution out of the streets and into the museums and schoolbooks as quickly as possible, lest the people decide to repeat the experience. - James Scott Submitted by Tequila_Wolf on July 8, 2023 at 3:50 PM No comments 11
One of the best definitions of anarchism I've come by - it unfolds really well in the way that it can plug into other topics: Submitted by Tequila_Wolf on February 27, 2023 at 8:06 PM 9 comments 11
A succinct quote from Bakunin highlighting the paradox in Marxist two-stage revolution: "If their State is going to be a genuine people’s State, why should it then dissolve itself?" Submitted by Tequila_Wolf on October 2, 2022 at 1:28 AM No comments 11
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 An_Old_Big_Tree on August 26, 2018 at 9:05 PM No comments 11
one who follows Renzo Novatore could end up one day with him in a lunatic asylum—perhaps a “libertarian communist” one. -renzo novatore Submitted by Lettuce on March 9, 2024 at 1:58 AM 5 comments 10
”This is the baddest you ever heard, and if you don’t think so, I’m going to kick your ass!” - Miles Davis Submitted by asterism on February 11, 2024 at 12:08 AM 1 comment 10
"And that’s when I first learned about evil. It is built into the nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior." Terry Pratchett Submitted by itsalways1312somewhere on November 22, 2023 at 9:26 PM No comments 10
I still have no idea why they targeted the Lord Mayor of Bristol. And neither ..... does he, but it seems his Toyota Prius and his wife's Ford Fiesta were deemed to be part of the European Fortress and so they had to die in the nihilists' fire Submitted by Lettuce on November 20, 2023 at 5:31 PM 4 comments 10
White supremacy's sorcery is its ability to define the entire world from white people's standpoint and to affect the internal psyches of other living beings. ..... cont. Submitted by Lettuce on November 15, 2023 at 5:48 PM 1 comment 10
Quote by Judge in Court on why Prions Should be Abolished Submitted by Lettuce on November 12, 2023 at 9:39 PM (edited on November 12, 2023 at 9:42 PM) 2 comments 10
Scott (2012: x) points out, ‘virtually every major successful revolution ended by creating a state more powerful than the one it overthrew, a state that in turn was able to extract more resources from and exercise more control over the very population it was designed to serve’. Submitted by Tequila_Wolf on August 23, 2023 at 2:40 PM No comments 10
"...Killing can be a beautiful thing. It can also be a tool in the service of domination. It is not simply and inherently one or the other." - Peter Gelderloos Submitted by when_you_sleep on January 24, 2023 at 5:44 PM 1 comment 10
"Those who want ‘to bring freedom to the world’—which will always be their idea of freedom—are tyrants, not anarchists.” - Gustav Landauer, 1901 Submitted by Fool on August 21, 2022 at 10:12 AM 1 comment 10
Democracy has been defined as the principle that "one man is as good as another, if not a little better." Anarchy may be defined as the principle that one government is as bad as another, if not a little worse. Submitted by subrosa on January 24, 2022 at 11:19 PM 2 comments 10