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. . . then life began, and since then we remember each dumpster, abandoned house, and foot-chase by retail security. At night, after running around, plotting and scheming, our checklist items all crossed out, we paused to think — 'What to do tomorrow?' and the answer was always, 'As we please . . .


CrimethInc.


#life #society #life

Comradeship, dignity, amorosity, love, solidarity, fraternity, friendship, ethics: all these names stand in contrast to the commodified, monetised relations of capitalism, all describe relations developed in struggles against capitalism and which can be seen as anticipating or creating a society beyond capitalism.


John Holloway


#solidarity #friendship

I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.


Eugene Victor Debs


#capitalism #feudalism #inequality #justice #labor

The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.


Napoleon Bonaparte


#gain #internationalism #money #patriotism #money

You know, when I was in Paris, seeing Linter for the first time, I was standing at the top of some steps in the courtyard where Linter's place was, and I looked across it and there was a little notice on the wall saying it was forbidden to take photographs of the courtyard without the man's permission. [..] They want to own the light!


Iain Banks


#human-nature #observation #science-fiction #art

[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.


Adam Johnson


#capitalism #communism #economics #north-korea #obedience

In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this.


Henry David Thoreau


#labor #work #life

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” - Lord Henry Wotton.


Oscar Wilde


#capitalism #material #money #possessions #priorities

When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.


Calvin Trillin


#capitalism #century #clean #comes #family






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