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 17
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 16
"I wish I had seen the error in my way, long before my hair turned grey." - Al Ma'arri [on Veganism] ~1000AD Submitted by PatternofPi on July 23, 2023 at 2:13 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
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 11
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 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
"...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 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
"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
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 10
Rudolf Rocker ([1956] 2005, 111) once declared, “I am an anarchist not because I believe anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a final goal.” Submitted by Tequila_Wolf on August 25, 2023 at 2:42 PM 2 comments 10
"Hustle culture is just stockholm syndrome for capitalism." - Unknown Submitted by sudo on August 15, 2023 at 3:55 PM No comments 10
"People who call themselves 'brutally honest' usually enjoy the brutality more than the honesty." - Richard Needham Submitted by sudo on July 29, 2023 at 4:31 PM No comments 10
“A zoologist who observed gorillas in their native habitat ... Submitted by sweetiebot on July 5, 2023 at 9:07 PM No comments 10
"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
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