Michael Motta
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“A little girl of seventeen in a mental hospital told me she was terrified because the Atom Bomb was inside her. That is a delusion. The statesmen of the world who boast and threaten that they have Doomsday weapons are far more dangerous, and far more estranged from 'reality' than many of the people on whom the label 'psychotic' is fixed.”
― The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
― The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
“A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.”
― The Book of Secrets
― The Book of Secrets
“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims... but accomplices”
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“We live in a time that demands a discourse of both critique and possibility, one that recognizes that without an informed citizenry, collective struggle, and viable social movements, democracy will slip out of our reach and we will arrive at a new stage of history marked by the birth of an authoritarianism that not only disdains all vestiges of democracy but is more than willing to relegate it to a distant memory.”
― Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism
― Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism
“From the family, through the school and religious institutions, the mass media, to the factory and finally trade union and "revolutionary" party, capitalist society conspires to foster obedience, hierarchy, the work ethic, and authoritarian discipline in the working class as a whole; indeed, in many of its "emancipatory" movements as well.”
― To Remember Spain: The Anarchist and Syndicalist Revolution of 1936
― To Remember Spain: The Anarchist and Syndicalist Revolution of 1936
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