“Other Chicago anarchists were also interested in the ‘Indian Question'”
Author: historyiswhat
Personally, I’m disappointed to see that someone else is disappointed by critical thinking around state nationalism, particularly European and subsidiary settler colonial nationalisms.
“As everything has an end, its end is the first quality, the first determination, the first negation of everything.
It is through its end that everything begins.”
“Every increase in the fighting force by one State directed against its subjects causes uneasiness to the neighbouring State and compels it to increase its army, too.”
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In Keston Sutherland’s article, Marx in Jargon, he asserts that there is a misunderstood idea about Marx’s book Capital, due to certain English mistranslations, as he describes them, by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling, and later Ben Fowkes.
“In the villages there are no police, and, for the same reason, order reigns in them. There are no rich people, so there is no need for police.”
“This was the first revolutionary error. By maintaining the government, its old bourgeois structure was respected and around it the whole weight of the bureaucratic apparatus that it had sustained up to that point.”
“In particular, some socialists … sneer at the ‘dream’ of anarchism. Yet I have found that it is not a dream, but something aspects of which have been realized in the autonomy of the villages inherited from our ancestors.”
“There is nothing to it
As the Bible says
‘All politicians are liars’
Therefore, if ye would be ‘saved’
Save yourselves”
“The only value that political activity has to the working class is from the standpoint of agitation and education. Its educational merit consists solely in proving to the workers its utter inefficacy to curb the power of the ruling class and therefore forcing the workers to rely on the organization of their class in the industries of the world.”
