I must be Noam Tomsky

“ Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals.

— Lucy Parsons (via socialistscum)

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“ I’m not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself.

— Vivian Stanshall (via gaywrites)

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“ Decentralization must strive at putting important decisions into the hands of the inhabitants of small, local areas which are still subject to the fundamental principles which govern the life of the whole society. But whichever forms are to be found, the essential principle is that the democratic process is transformed into one in which well-informed and responsible citizens—not automatized mass-men, controlled by the methods of hypnoid mass-suggestion—express their will.

— Erich Fromm, On Disobedience: Humanist Socialism (via humanformat)

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Dick Proenneke: Alone in the Wilderness

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“ What has emerged in the second decade after 9/11 is a remarkable consensus among Democrats and Republicans on a core approach to the nation’s foreign policy. It’s certainly not a perfect alignment. But rarely since the end of the Cold War has there been this level of consensus. Indeed, while Americans may be divided, polarized and dysfunctional about issues closer to home, we are really quite united in how we see the world and what we should do about it. […] Paradoxically, both George W. Bush’s successes and failures helped to create this new consensus. His tough and largely successful approach to counterterrorism — specifically, keeping the homeland safe and keeping al Qaeda and its affiliates at bay through use of special forces, drone attacks, aggressive use of intelligence, and more effective cooperation among agencies now forms a virtually unassailable bipartisan consensus.

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As shown through his stepped-up drone campaign, Barack Obama has become George W. Bush on steroids. - Foreign Policy

In simple words: While domestic policies remain a forum where disagreement is diverse and intense, the platform for foreign policies is where agreement is reached. Which also means candidates claiming to change the foreign policy won’t deliver much - similar to the case of Obama. Drones, bombing, covert ops, assassinations will continue to “protect US freedom.”

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America’s Obesity Chart 1985-2006

syndicalist-anarchism:

Compare this with the starving in other countries.

Not saying you’re a bad person at all if you’re obese

I just think food should be distributed more equally.

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A friends house.

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“ If you’re not ready to die for it, put the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.

— Malcolm X (via alexeikaramazov)

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“ I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with.

— Plato (via humanformat)

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“ The word “inflation” originally applied solely to the quantity of money. It meant that the volume of money was inflated, blown up, overextended. It is not mere pedantry to insist that the word should be used only in its original meaning. To use it to mean “a rise in prices” is to deflect attention away from the real cause of inflation and the real cure for it.

— Henry Hazlitt, What You Should Know About Inflation (1960)

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