progressive slave owner

by regularcharlotte

"Democracy is quite different from a Republic as well as from Parliamentary Government. The roots of democracy lie not in the form of Government, Parliamentary or otherwise.

A democracy is more than a form of Government. It is primarily a mode of associated living.

The roots of Democracy are to be searched in the social relationship, in the terms of associated life between the people who form a society."

— Dr BR Ambedkar

https://essentialambedkar.wordpress.com/tag/voice-of-america/

"The tendency of writers to create a dichotomy between socialism and anarchism is, I think, both conceptually and historically misleading."

— Brian Morris, Basic Kropotkin:
Kropotkin and the History of Anarchism

"you don't have a marx"

he's not the only one that has critiqued capitalism in the last 150 years 😂😭

"For Karl Marx, the égalitaire, we feel the profoundest respect; as for Karl Marx, the autoritaire, we must consider him an enemy. Liberty said as much in its first issue, and sees no reason to change its mind.

He was an honest man, a strong man, a humanitarian, and the promulgator of much vitally important truth, but on the most vital question of politics and economy he was persistently and irretrievably mistaken."

— Benjamin Tucker

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/benjamin-tucker-karl-marx-as-friend-and-foe

the bourgeoisie are vanguards, what excellent progress the communist movement has made

red salute! 🫡🫡🫡

"To us it means nothing that there is a Soviet Union somewhere in the world, for the sake of whose peace and tranquility the workers of Germany and China were sacrificed to Fascist barbarians by Stalin."

— Buenaventura Durruti

"This ecosystem of power also nurtures a psychology of brutal competition, not only among those who seek its power, but also among those it represses, twisting them into seeing the world as it does, in terms of power rather than freedom. It violently simplifies our relations with one another into centralized structures and encourages us to struggle to dominate one another.

Statism isolates. Its centralization is just another way to say that power severs and impedes our connectivity. Instead of distributed resilient social networks statism stokes hierarchy and segregation, giving us each fewer options in our relations with others and holding back what is possible on the whole."

https://humaniterations.net/2017/06/14/your-freedom-is-my-freedom-the-premise-of-anarchism/

"In recent years, several state-owned Chinese companies, along with other private Chinese firms, have invested directly or indirectly in Israeli settlements or companies operating within them."

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/china-quietly-aiding-israels-settlement-enterprise-how

statists in a nutshell: