"We want to put an end once and for all to any rigid assigning of sexual identity. We do not want to think of ourselves anymore as men and women, homosexuals and heterosexuals, possessors and possessed, older and younger, masters and slave, but rather as human beings who transcend such sexual categorization, who are autonomous, in flux, and multifaceted.
We want to see ourselves as being with varying identities, who can express their desires, their pleasures, their ecstasies, their tenderness without relying on or invoking any system of surplus value, or any system of power at all, but only in the spirit of play."
–Pierre-Félix Guattari, To Have Done with the Massacre of the Body
We want to see ourselves as being with varying identities, who can express their desires, their pleasures, their ecstasies, their tenderness without relying on or invoking any system of surplus value, or any system of power at all, but only in the spirit of play."
–Pierre-Félix Guattari, To Have Done with the Massacre of the Body
"The most radical act you can take is destroying the oppressive systems in your head and beliefs.
Move forward listening to the oppressed. Ask your community members what it is they need and do whatever is within your ability to supply it. When we care for the community directly we build a bond that not even the most oppressive authoritarian can destroy.
Community is our liberation. When people choose to partake in a community and care for each other the fight in each of us overpowers that of the State. We cannot expect this path to be easy. Every successful attempt at building this community will be met with State repression because they cannot have us prove the failures of the system."
Aya, On Anarchism: An Indigenous Queer Perspective
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Move forward listening to the oppressed. Ask your community members what it is they need and do whatever is within your ability to supply it. When we care for the community directly we build a bond that not even the most oppressive authoritarian can destroy.
Community is our liberation. When people choose to partake in a community and care for each other the fight in each of us overpowers that of the State. We cannot expect this path to be easy. Every successful attempt at building this community will be met with State repression because they cannot have us prove the failures of the system."
Aya, On Anarchism: An Indigenous Queer Perspective
Download the PDF here
"With deregulation, privatisation, free trade, what we're seeing is yet another enclosure and, if you like, private taking of the commons.
One of the things I find very interesting in our current debates is this concept of who creates wealth. That wealth is only created when it's owned privately. What would you call clean water, fresh air, a safe environment? Are they not a form of wealth? And why does it only become wealth when some entity puts a fence around it and declares it private property? Well, you know, that's not wealth creation. That's wealth usurpation."
— Elaine Bernard
One of the things I find very interesting in our current debates is this concept of who creates wealth. That wealth is only created when it's owned privately. What would you call clean water, fresh air, a safe environment? Are they not a form of wealth? And why does it only become wealth when some entity puts a fence around it and declares it private property? Well, you know, that's not wealth creation. That's wealth usurpation."
— Elaine Bernard
"Change is freedom, change is life. It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don't make changes, don't risk disapproval, don't upset your syndics. It's always easiest to let yourself be governed.
There's a point, around age twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfil my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to go unbuild walls."
— Ursula K Le Guin, The Dispossessed, 1974
There's a point, around age twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfil my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to go unbuild walls."
— Ursula K Le Guin, The Dispossessed, 1974
"People have become so used to seeing the evidences of authority on every hand that most of them honestly believe that they would go utterly to the bad if it were not for the policeman’s club or the soldier’s bayonet."
Lucy Parsons, The Principles of Anarchism
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lucy-e-parsons-the-principles-of-anarchism
Lucy Parsons, The Principles of Anarchism
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lucy-e-parsons-the-principles-of-anarchism
"Marxist revolutionaries have followed the logic of hegemony in seeking state power, hoping to reverse the relationship between the dominated and the dominators.
Liberal and postmarxist reformism display the same logic, although in a different mode—rather than seeking to take state power, they seek to influence its operation through processes of pluralistic co-operation and conflict.
What is most interesting about contemporary radical activism is that some groups are breaking out of this trap by operating non-hegemonically rather than counter-hegemonically. They seek radical change, but not through taking or influencing state power, and in so doing they challenge the logic of hegemony at its very core."
— Richard JF Day, Gramsci is Dead: Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social Movements, 2005
Liberal and postmarxist reformism display the same logic, although in a different mode—rather than seeking to take state power, they seek to influence its operation through processes of pluralistic co-operation and conflict.
What is most interesting about contemporary radical activism is that some groups are breaking out of this trap by operating non-hegemonically rather than counter-hegemonically. They seek radical change, but not through taking or influencing state power, and in so doing they challenge the logic of hegemony at its very core."
— Richard JF Day, Gramsci is Dead: Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social Movements, 2005
"Details laid out in the complaint show that it was fairly straightforward to connect the dots, largely thanks to data provided by Google and Amazon, which led directly to the suspects."
https://torrentfreak.com/how-google-and-amazon-helped-the-fbi-identify-z-librarys-operators-221117/
https://torrentfreak.com/how-google-and-amazon-helped-the-fbi-identify-z-librarys-operators-221117/
Torrentfreak
Google and Amazon Helped the FBI Identify Z-Library’s Operators * TorrentFreak
The criminal complaint against two alleged operators of Z-Library suggests that security wasn't high on their list of priorities
"... here's a thread of every part of the gynaecological anatomy that is named after a man, with a bit of trivia about each man."
https://twitter.com/vagina_museum/status/1593990778266832896
https://twitter.com/vagina_museum/status/1593990778266832896
Twitter
Since it's #InternationalMensDay, here's a thread of every part of the gynaecological anatomy that is named after a man, with a bit of trivia about each man. Some of the bits are very specific. Before you ask, there are no parts of the gynaecological anatomy…
'Power to the people' can only be put into practice when the power exercised by social elites is dissolved into the people. Each individual can then take control of their daily life.
If 'Power to the people' means nothing more than power to the 'leaders' of the people, then the people remain an undifferentiated, manipulatable mass, as powerless after the revolution as they were before.
—Murray Bookchin, Post-Scarcity Anarchism
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-post-scarcity-anarchism-book
If 'Power to the people' means nothing more than power to the 'leaders' of the people, then the people remain an undifferentiated, manipulatable mass, as powerless after the revolution as they were before.
—Murray Bookchin, Post-Scarcity Anarchism
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-post-scarcity-anarchism-book