Eon Cooper
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“The first law of the market is to make the largest possible profit from other people’s labor. Private profitability rather than human need is the determining condition of private investment. There prevails a rational systematization of human endeavor in pursuit of a socially irrational end: “accumulate, accumulate, accumulate.”
― Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
― Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
“It is hoped that when the time comes for American and West Indian Africans to settle in Africa, they will realize their responsibility and their duty. It will not be to go to Africa for the purpose of exercising an over-lordship over the natives, but it shall be the purpose of the Universal Negro Improvement Association[ii] to have established in Africa that brotherly cooperation which make the interest of the African native and the American and West Indian African one and the same, that is to say, we shall enter into a common partnership to build up Africa in the interest of our race.”
― Emancipated From Mental Slavery
― Emancipated From Mental Slavery
“So far, the prevailing force has not been revolution but counterrevolution, the devilish destruction wreaked by capitalist states upon popular struggles, at a cost of millions of lives.”
― Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
― Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
“[...] what is more reductionist than to ignore the underlying dynamics of economic power and the conflict between capital and labor? What is more misleading than to treat occupational groups as autonomous classes, giving attention to every social group in capitalist society except the capitalist class itself, to every social conflict except class conflict?”
― Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
― Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
“Prisons are a profitable business. They are a way of legally perpetuating slavery.”
― Assata: An Autobiography
― Assata: An Autobiography
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