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One thing Bailey realized in writing the story is that the world is ending for someone every minute of every day. He says, "We don't need the destruction of entire cities to know what it's like to survive a catastrophe.
“But, if plenty for all is to become a reality, this immense capital — cities, houses, pastures, arable lands, factories, highways, education — must cease to be regarded as private property, for the monopolist to dispose of at his pleasure.”
― The Conquest of Bread: The Founding Book of Anarchism
― The Conquest of Bread: The Founding Book of Anarchism
“The working class believed in a revolution that had been begun but never consolidated, and the bourgeoisie were scared and temporarily disguising themselves as workers.”
― Homage to Catalonia
― Homage to Catalonia
“There were two facts that were the keynote of all else. One was that the people—the civil population—had lost much of their interest in the war; the other was that the normal division of society into rich and poor, upper class and lower class, was reasserting itself.”
― Homage to Catalonia
― Homage to Catalonia
“The working class believed in a revolution that had been begun but never consolidated, and the bourgeoisie were scared and temporarily disguising themselves as workers. In”
― Homage to Catalonia
― Homage to Catalonia
“My husband had dementia,” she told me softly. “I took care of him for six years with these two hands. For a few months the insurance gave me help. Certain medications they pay after six years. They told me once he couldn’t swallow no more there was nothing we could do. . . . He died at home last year.”
― Wages of Rebellion
― Wages of Rebellion
Justin’s 2024 Year in Books
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