Michael Motta’s Reviews > Post-Scarcity Anarchism > Status Update

"'Look, motherfucker! Help the Third World by fighting capitalism at home! Don't cop out by hiding under Ho's and Mao's skirts when your real job is to overthrow domestic capitalism by dealing with the real possibilities of an American revolution! Develop a revolutionary project at home because every revolutionary project here is

"Anarchism is a libidinal movement of humanity against coercion in any form, reaching back in time to the very emergence of propertied society, class rule and the state."

"The centralized party--a completely bourgeois institution--became the refuge of counterrevolution in its most sinister form." If I didn't know better I'd think he was talking about the DNC!

"To the degree that workers, vocational students and high school students link their lifestyles to various aspects of the anarchic youth culture, to that degree will the proletariat be transformed from a force for the conservation of the established order into a force for revolution."

"The dissolution of the factory into the community completes the dissolution of the last vestiges of propertied, of class, and, above all, of mediated society into the new polis. And now the real drama of human life can unfold, in all its beauty, harmony, creativity, and joy."

"Thus far every social revolution has foundered because the peal of the tocsin could not be heard over the din of the workshop."

"The most important process going on in America today is the sweeping de-institutionalization of the bourgeois social structure. A basic, far-reaching disrespect and a profound disloyalty are developing toward the values, the forms, the aspirations and, above all, the institutions of the established order." "They no longer believe in its claims. They no longer respect its symbols. They no longer accept its goals . ."