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3. While this might seem to leave little room for human agency in history, one need not despair completely. Legitimate political action can take place, provided it is on a personal level: through the fashioning of subversive identities,
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“Non siamo qui per tornare ai carretti,
alle famiglie con tutta la miseria
in una stanza, ma siamo qui
per continuare a modo nostro
quel tempo in cui le cose erano vere.”
― Canti della gratitudine
alle famiglie con tutta la miseria
in una stanza, ma siamo qui
per continuare a modo nostro
quel tempo in cui le cose erano vere.”
― Canti della gratitudine
“When the volume of debt has grown as large as national income or GDP, and when it bears an interest rate (typically 5%) above the economy’s rate of growth (typically just 1% to 2%), then all the growth in national income is taken by the creditors.”
― J Is for Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception
― J Is for Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception
“Blue clay, red clay, what does it matter!” he said. “Any fool can dig black mud!”
My mother sat spinning awhile and said at last, “That’s crazy talk.” She laughed again. “If any fool can, why can’t you, my dear?”
― Always Coming Home
My mother sat spinning awhile and said at last, “That’s crazy talk.” She laughed again. “If any fool can, why can’t you, my dear?”
― Always Coming Home
“Raising interest rates is voo-doo. You can't deal with a global system problem by trying to solve it with this.”
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“The theory of exodus proposes that the most effective way of opposing capitalism and the liberal state is not through direct confrontation but by means of what Paolo Virno has called “engaged withdrawal,”mass defection by those wishing to create new forms of community. One need only glance at the historical record to confirm that most successful forms of popular resistance have taken precisely this form. They have not involved challenging power head on (this usually leads to being slaughtered, or if not, turning into some—often even uglier—variant of the
very thing one first challenged) but from one or another strategy of slipping away from its grasp, from flight, desertion, the founding of new communities.”
― Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
very thing one first challenged) but from one or another strategy of slipping away from its grasp, from flight, desertion, the founding of new communities.”
― Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
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