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“In the United States, the word “libertarian” has taken on the opposite meaning from that of the rest of the world. Strangely, it’s become synonymous with advocacy of extreme capitalist individualism, private property and the “rights” of corporations to be “free” from public oversight. But freedom for the powerful is not freedom at all.
Since its origin, libertarianism has been synonymous with anarchism or anti-authoritarianism: the belief that relationships based on domination, hierarchy and exploitation should be dismantled in favor of freedom and self-determination. To anarchists, an individual can only be free in a community of equals. As the 19th century Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin put it: “Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie.” It should come as no surprise then, that libertarians have always been socialists, since capitalism is based on class domination.
Though the possible confusion is understandable, libertarian socialism is more of a redundancy than a contradiction in terms. Freedom and socialism are indispensable to one another. Without one, the other loses its meaning. So libertarian socialism simply means “free socialism.” As the anarchist thinker Rudolf Rocker put it: “Socialism will be free, or it will not be at all.””
- Black Rose Anarchist Federation, Socialism Will Be Free, It Will Not Be At All!
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Anonymous asked:
Any tips on surviving under capitalism?
Keep your passion for a libertarian communistworld alive, a world where everyone helps meet everyone’s needs and everyonecan freely develop themselves as they see fit, and use that passion to continuepushing on through the hardships of alienated life under capitalism.Findmeaning in every act, however small, that contributes to building working classpower and solidarity and thus capitalism’s demise.Don’t burn yourself out, don’t expect your efforts alone to be the spark of mass revolt, instead give yourselfspace to care and learn about other things that ease your tension (e.g., gardening, baking, sewing,carpentry, painting, therapy, reading, music, etc.).
Short-sighted revolutionaries giving in to the pessimism that is electoral politics yet again...
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to dance on the ashes of what was to fall head first in what could be (to run) beyond the barricade (to run) is there a world you long to see?
to envision a world without chains but recognize that we as individuals can only chip away at the links one at a time, day by day to have the ability to wage quiet wars in our everyday lives and recognize the subtle victories when they happen
an opinion changed by something you said a lifestyle adjusted by what you suggested a brighter path taken with directions you gave a world revealed by what you did
ONE BRICK TODAY IS ONE LESS FOR TOMORROW
Beating on our chains with paper ballots, no matter how many, doesn't get us any closer to emancipation.
Seeing radicals get excited about demsoc politicians...
The moment a movement becomes respectable in the eyes of those who are not wage workers, that moment it loses its revolutionary character. It dies.
The master class in every day and age have first ignored, then fought for a time, and finally, seeing these methods fail to stop revolutionary organization, they fraternized. And fraternity between master and slave is death to revolution.
The I.W.W. is not respectable, and as all current ideas of respectability are master class ideas, we have no desire to be respectable.
We are not “undesirable citizens.” We are not citizens at all. We are rebellious slaves, scorning the morals, ethics, ideas and institutions of the Plunderbund. Therefore we are not respectable. We admit it and we are proud of it.
– “Respectability,” Industrial Worker (October 24, 1912)
I used to battle with the Prince o' Darkness I used to steal away his heart through a four foot seam; And when they asked if I was poor, I'd tell them "aye, sure" But they never had to teach me how to dream.
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On this day, 28 May 1871, the Paris Commune, the world’s first modern working class socialist uprising, was crushed when the bourgeois government massacred thousands of working class men, women, and children to regained control of city. This is an informative Solidarity pamphlet about the commune: https://ift.tt/2sizg20 Pictured: A painting of the repression, by Maximilien Luce https://ift.tt/2Jffj6Q
“IDK how y'all do this 9-5 shit”
- Karl Marx