"It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced. The bond that binds us is beyond choice. We are brothers. We are brothers in what we share. In pain, which each of us must suffer alone, in hunger, in poverty, in hope, we know our brotherhood. We know it, because we have had to learn it. We know that there is no help for us but from one another, that no hand will save us if we do not reach out our hand. And the hand that you reach out is empty, as mine is. You have nothing. You possess nothing. You own nothing. You are free. All you have is what you are, and what you give."

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (via probablyasocialecologist)

This took me to thinking of one my other favorite quotes from The Dispossessed:

“For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.”

…which then took me to thinking about one of your old DagSeoul posts about “unearned ambition” and how maintaining it is inherently a white supremacist project. I’m wondering a couple things. One, do you think your conception of “earning” is compatible with Le Guin’s? And two, what are you thinking these days about unearned ambition, how it ties into fascism that is increasingly including militias in the streets, and confronting each or both?

(via dagwolf)

libertariancommunism:

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actjustly:
“an excerpt from Mark Bray’s book Antifa
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actjustly:

an excerpt from Mark Bray’s book Antifa 

(via os2warp)

"A lot of traditional leftist rhetoric stemmed from obsolete work-ethic notions: the bourgeois were bad because they didn’t do productive work, whereas the worthy proletarians deserved the fruits of their labor, etc. As labor has become increasingly unnecessary and directed to increasingly absurd ends, this perspective has lost whatever sense it may once have had. The point is not to praise the proletariat, but to abolish it."

— Ken Knabb (via class-struggle-anarchism)

(via dagwolf)

galpalison:

Twitter decided to provide the most cartoonishly reprehensible example of how “sex positive” “"feminism”“ reproduces heteropatriarchal discourse

(via plum-soup)

transexualizer:
“READ A NEW BOOK
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transexualizer:

READ A NEW BOOK

(via dagwolf)

(Source: weheartit.com, via os2warp)

egowave:
“ berniesrevolution:
“Look, I know ok, but it’s good to have a back-up plan in case the political revolution fails.”
WHO RADICALIZED BERNIESREVOLUTION
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egowave:

berniesrevolution:

Look, I know ok, but it’s good to have a back-up plan in case the political revolution fails.

WHO RADICALIZED BERNIESREVOLUTION

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cocoalesbean:

If I’ve learnt anything from my contact with the bdsm community, the poly community, the geek community and the atheist community is that any social group who claims to “not to be like other groups” and to be"accepting and safe for all" is going to spend a lot of energy hiding the predators within the community and silencing abuse survivors.

(via love4yrself)