“To perpetuate stupidity and ignorance, nothing could be invented more effective than the Vote.”
Author: historyiswhat
“The heartlessness of the Government’s hasty reprisal is indicative of its sincerity in the stand that small nations must be guaranteed their freedom.”
“Half a dozen great nations have been engaged in killing and trying to kill each other as quickly as possible, and the resources of science have been utilized to the utmost in fashioning the most diabolical weapons of war that the human mind could imagine.”
“It seems to me that our attitude is not to say who shall dominate in certain areas, but to put an end to domination in every area.”
“To safeguard their power to exploit the peoples — black, white, or yellow — they were quite prepared to make a slaughter-house of Europe.”
“All this we do not need. We are Anarchists.”
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The Avalanche – Clara Cole (1947)
“Conscription is the negation of defence, for armed peace presupposes war and is offensive.”
“I returned and found my people hurting also. Hurt by the same White government I was fighting for.”
“As the earliest Anarchist criticisms of Zionism said — a new nationalism could only create a State and this would become more reactionary, as witness the decline of Italian nationalism into fascism.”
“In the colonies of the British Empire fascism is already established.”
“The future belongs to us and to our social philosophy. For it is the only social ideal that teaches independent thinking and direct participation of the workers in their economic struggle.”
“…having studied the correspondence — I consider the Arabs’ case to be indisputable, the alternative proposition, which is that our promises were ambiguous, is hardly to our credit.”
“‘Finding is keeping’ is a good motto for conquistadores and imperialists, but not, I should have thought, for Anarchists.”
“In other words, Kropotkin’s emotions for France lead him to sustain the schemes of Czarism.”
“Muslim nationalism tends to emancipate itself from the English yoke. They have ample reasons.”
“The ‘patriot’ doesn’t stop to question whether he is doing right or whether he is doing wrong, but will go forth and kill somebody of some other nation even if he knows he is in the wrong.”
“The I.W.W. does not neglect propaganda among the skilled workers, but it particularly addresses itself to the unskilled, migratory workers who form the bulk of the working class.”
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Communism – Henry Glasse (1912)
“…but I also maintain it on the score of policy and on behalf of the strong themselves, because all men are weak at some period of their lives, and liable to become so at any time.”
“‘Our proud heritage’ as the rise of a department store?”
“Every time there is a crisis within the prison system, the government diverts the anger of society and its need for a resolution into some government commission, inquiry or report.”
“Stupid error of a maddened bourgeoisie! The death of an agitator does not put an end to discontent.”
“Now the I.W.W. wants the six-hour day for all mine workers because we want to do LESS WORK for the bosses instead of more.”
