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Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

by David Graeber

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“The systems responsible for our oppression cannot be the same systems responsible for our liberation.”
― Derecka Purnell, Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom

tags: abolition, activism, community, freedom, justice, memoir, nonfiction

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“The more we study the question, the more we are brought to the conclusion that society itself is responsible for the anti-social deeds perpetrated in its midst; and that no punishments, no prisons, and no hangmen can diminish the numbers of such deeds; nothing short of a re-organisation of society itself.”
― Pyotr Kropotkin

tags: abolition, anarchism

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“In the name of patriotism you are ordered to stop being decent and honest, to cease being yourself, to suspend your own judgment, and give up your life; to become a will-less cog in a murderous machine, blindly obeying the order to kill, pillage, and destroy; to give up your father and mother, wife and child, and all that you love, and proceed to slaughter your fellow-men who never did you any harm — who are just as unfortunate and deluded victims of their masters as you are of yours.”
― Alexander Berkman, The ABC of Anarchism

tags: anarchism, militarism, military, nationalism, obedience, patriotism, war

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“Abolition is not simply about getting rid of the prisons, police or systems of surveillance and punishment; it is about what we build in their place.”
― Sarah Lamble, Abolishing the Police

tags: abolition, police, prison, prison-industrial-complex

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“That does not mean, however, there should be no consequences. It means real consequences. Consequences that really matter. It means transforming the conditions that exist in the first place for this to even have happened. It is really critical for people to think about the difference between punishment and consequences. Punishment often is actually not the same as transformation. Even though it feels good to wear the “kill the rapists” T-shirt, that isn’t the thing that is actually going to get us the world we want to live in.”
― Mariame Kaba, We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

tags: abolition, activism, assault, justice

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