“As long as participation in knowledge does not embrace everyone, pure science will remain indifferent to struggle and degradation, while applied science will contribute to destruction either directly by the invention of weapons, or indirectly by endowing things like consumer goods with a seductive appearance, thus fostering friction among people.”
― Philosophy of the Common Cause
― Philosophy of the Common Cause
“…jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you’re trying to organize a mass base of support for policies that are really intended to crush them.”
― Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
― Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
“Fascism and Nazism emerged as emotional, antirational appeals grounded in masculine promises of renewed national vigor.”
― Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook
― Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook
“Capitalism is the same everywhere. In order to survive and prosper it needs a permanent situation of partial scarcity: it needs it to maintain its prices and to create hungry masses to work under any conditions.”
― At the Café: Conversations on Anarchism
― At the Café: Conversations on Anarchism
“Rationality did not stop the Fascists or the Nazis.”
― Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook
― Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook
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