“Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are already dying who could be saved, that generations more will live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to act. Do what must be done, discover your humanity and your love in revolution.”
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“When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.”
― The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
― The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
“The Commune, they exclaim, intends to abolish property, the basis of all civilization! Yes, gentlemen, the Commune intended to abolish that class property which makes the labour of the many the wealth of the few.”
― The Civil War in France
― The Civil War in France
“But the working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready-made state machinery, and wield it for
its own purposes.”
― The Civil War in France
its own purposes.”
― The Civil War in France
“History is what hurts, it is what refuses desire and sets inexorable limits to individual as well as collective praxis...”
― The Political Unconscious
― The Political Unconscious
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