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“If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by reframing them in the language of debt—above all, because it immediately makes it seem that it's the victim who's doing something wrong.”
― Debt: The First 5,000 Years
― Debt: The First 5,000 Years
“Justice? -You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.”
― A Frolic of His Own
― A Frolic of His Own
“I mean why should somebody go steal and break the law to get all they can when there's always some law where you can be legal and get it all anyway!”
― J R
― J R
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― 1984
― 1984
“People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other.”
― The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
― The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
Anarchist & Radical Book Club
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This is a group to read and discuss anarchist practice and theory, by gathering a large body of anarchist literature, non-fiction, and theory, as well ...more
Deep Green Resistance (Glen Ellyn, IL): Readings
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— last activity Sep 10, 2016 07:42AM
Deep Green Resistance (Glen Ellyn, IL): Readings is a forum for discussion about and readings concerning the current social, cultural, and political c ...more
Atheists and Skeptics
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This is a group meant for the discussion of atheism and skepticism and the books associated with both. Recommending books arguing for or against relig ...more
The History Book Club
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"Interested in history - then you have found the right group". The History Book Club is the largest history and nonfiction group on Goodread ...more
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