"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

"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

"Theft is but restitution carried out by an individual to his own benefit, being conscious of another's undue monopolization of collectively produced wealth."

—Clément Duvall

the term "cost of living" should make you want to abolish capitalism

"Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence... to alienate humans from their own decision making is to change them into objects."

— Paolo Freire

"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/

"... 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

'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

"Anarchists advocate the smashing of the existing state and the creation of federations of workers councils and militias. This is a state and a dictatorship of the proletariat by the extremely broad definitions Marxists use: its workers with guns imposing their will on capitalists.

Although workers councils and militias are structures which use coercion against the capitalist class, they are not a state by the anarchist definition.

This is because they are not centralised, hierarchical and ruled by a minority who monopolize decision making power."

—Zoe Baker aka anarchopac on YouTube and Twitter

in the long run the practice of solidarity proves much more advantageous to the species than the development of individuals endowed with predatory inclinations.
Pyotr Kropotkin, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution

"What the f do you do at an office job?"

Source: https://www.tiktok.com/@beevesoftime/video/7163115867952385326

Tenoch Huerta, who is recently in the news for playing Namor in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,
speaks up about how racism is deeply ingrained in our society and begins at home

Engels—that daddy of Marxists everywhere—once said: “These gentlemen think that when they have changed the names of things they have changed the things themselves” (On Authority).

Ironically, this anti-anarchist argument is a powerful argument against state socialism.

Just because state socialist states call their party communist and their republic socialist does nothing to change the character of commodity production and wage relations in that country. Socialism means doing away with these things, not its reproduction.

We can detourn Engles like so:

These authoritarians think that when they have changed the names of things to “socialist” they have changed the things themselves! This is how these profound thinkers mock at the whole world.

Thank you comrade Engels! /s Now feel free to detourn Engels as much as you see fit! Let the authoritarians find no safety in Engels!

Source: https://kolektiva.social/@BandilangItimPH/109391749132297339

iranian schoolgirls tearing down the patriarchy

november 2022