“Production is, for us, the mere servant of consumption; it must mold itself on the wants of the consumer, not dictate to him conditions.”
Author: historyiswhat
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Remembering comrade Yarrow
Recently, a friend and comrade, who at one point, long ago, used the name ‘Yarrow’ among others, died after a lengthy struggle with cancer in our mutual hometown of Metro Vancouver, within Coast Salish territories.
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A Free Society – Albert Parsons (1884)
“Let the starving multitudes answer.”
“Their real struggle isn’t to protect us from weapons of mass destruction held by foreign evildoers, rather it’s to subject us to even greater domination and exploitation at their own hands.”
“They wanted to give the natives a voice in running their affairs, without giving power to the masses.”
“British industry is the work of the British nation — nay, of Europe and India taken together — not of separate individuals.”
“The recent bloody repressions in Jamaica […] the continual cleaning-up operations in India […] the savage repression of the Arabs in Palestine… all these are symbolic of British Imperialism.”
“Events in Persia have moved with a rapidity which has startled political commentators.”
“But nowadays human suffering does not count unless it is related in secret documents.”
“In the 20s, like many young Chinese intellectuals of his day, he went to Paris to study, and it was there partly out of homesickness, as he tells it, that he wrote his first novel Destruction”
