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“For the recognition of #private #property has really harmed #Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing was to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be. The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is.”

― Oscar #Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism

“Tis but a day we sojourn here below,
And all the gain we get is grief and woe,
Then, leaving our life’s riddles all unsolved,
And burdened with regrets, we have to go.”
― Omar #Khayyám, Rubaiyat

Artwork: [The Dance of Death (1493) by Michael #Wolgemut, from the Nuremberg Chronicle of Hartmann Schedel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danse_Macabre)

“All #authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and degrades those over whom it is exercised. When it is violently, grossly, and cruelly used, it produces a good effect by creating, or at any rate bringing out, the spirit of revolt and individualism that is to kill it. When it is used with a certain amount of kindness, and accompanied by prizes and rewards, it is dreadfully demoralising. People, in that case, are less conscious of the horrible pressure that is being put on them, and so go through their lives in a sort of coarse comfort, like petted animals, without ever realising that they are probably thinking other people’s thoughts, living by other people’s standards, wearing practically what one may call other people’s second-hand clothes, and never being themselves for a single moment.”

― Oscar #Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism

«Ο κόσμος είναι ένας αποξενωμένος και αναληθής κόσμος εφόσον ο άνθρωπος δεν καταστρέφει την νεκρή του αντικειμενικότητα και δεν αναγνωρίζει τον εαυτό του και τη ζωή του «πίσω» από τη σταθερή μορφή των πραγμάτων και των νόμων. Όταν τελικά κερδίζει αυτή την αυτοσυνείδηση, είναι καθ' οδόν όχι μόνο προς την αλήθεια του εαυτού του, αλλά και του κόσμου του. Και με την αναγνώριση πάει και η πράξη. Θα προσπαθήσει να κάνει πράξη αυτή την αλήθεια και να κάνει τον κόσμο αυτό που είναι ουσιαστικά, δηλαδή η εκπλήρωση της αυτοσυνείδησης του ανθρώπου».

“The world is an estranged and untrue world so long as man does not destroy its dead objectivity and recognize himself and his own life ‘behind’ the fixed form of things and laws. When he finally wins this self-consciousness, he is on his way not only to the truth of himself, but also of his world. And with the recognition goes the doing. He will try to put this truth into action, and make the world what it essentially is, namely, the fulfillment of man’s self-consciousness.”

― Herbert #Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

#workers #cops

#prolife

#FreeAssange

«Η #υλιστική αντίληψη της ιστορίας ξεκινά από την πρόταση ότι η παραγωγή των μέσων για την υποστήριξη της ανθρώπινης ζωής και, δίπλα στην παραγωγή, η ανταλλαγή των παραγόμενων πραγμάτων, είναι η βάση κάθε κοινωνικής δομής' ότι σε κάθε κοινωνία που έχει εμφανιστεί στην ιστορία, ο τρόπος με τον οποίο διανέμεται ο πλούτος και η κοινωνία χωρίζεται σε τάξεις εξαρτάται από το τι παράγεται, πώς παράγεται και πώς ανταλλάσσονται τα προϊόντα».

“The #materialist conception of history starts from the proposition that the production of the means to support human life and, next to production, the exchange of things produced, is the basis of all social structure; that in every society that has appeared in history, the manner in which wealth is distributed and society divided into classes or orders is dependent upon what is produced, how it is produced, and how the products are exchanged.”

― Friedrich #Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

“How, ‘then, does a sum of commodities, of exchange values, become #capital?
Thereby, that as an independent social power, i. e., as the power of a part of society, it preserves itself and multiplies by exchange with direct, living labor-power. The existence of a class which possesses nothing but the ability to work is a necessary presupposition of capital. It is only the dominion of past, accumulated, materialized labor over immediate living labor that stamps the accumulated labor with the character of capital. Capital does not consist in the fact that accumulated labor serves living labor as a means for new production. It consists in the fact that living labor serves accumulated labor as the means of preserving and multiplying its exchange value.”

― Karl #Marx, Wage Labour and Capital

“#Money is the universal, self-constituted value of all things. Hence it has robbed the whole world… of its proper value. Money is the alienated essence of man’s labour and life, and this alien essence dominates him as he worships it.”
― Karl #Marx, On the Jewish Question

Artwork: [Marinus van #Reymerswaele: The Money Changer and His Wife or The Banker and His Wife](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Marinus_van_Reymerswale_-_The_Banker_and_His_Wife_-_WGA19323.jpg)

[[ΕΚΤΑΚΤΟ] Κάλεσμα σε ανοιχτή συνέλευση- Αυτοδιαχειριζόμενο Στέκι Πολυτεχνείου

Το Αυτοδιαχειριζόμενο Στέκι Πολυτεχνείου, έχει ανακαταληφθεί από τις 30/09 κατευθείαν μετά και την 3η αστυνομική επιχείρηση εκκένωσης του. (...) Παράλληλα όμως σήμερα, μας γνωστοποιήθηκε πως η πρυτανεία και η κοσμητεία των Χημ. Μηχ. οργανώνουν σε αγαστή συνεργασία με το Υπουργείο Προ.Πο. , 4η εκκένωση του κατειλημμένου Στεκιού Πολυτεχνείου. Αυτή τη φορά, με στόχο την ολοκληρωτική καταστροφή του (γκρέμισμα όλων των τοίχων). (...). Καλούμε σε έκτακτη συνέλευση αύριο Τρίτη 3/10 στις 20.00 στη ΑΣΟΕΕ, με άξονες την υπεράσπιση του στεκιού πολυτεχνείου, την αλληλεγγύη στις καταλήψεις , δράσεις αλληλεγγύης και τον αγώνα ενάντια στη καταστολή στα πανεπιστήμια. ](https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1626821/)

[Monthly Review | Albert #Einstein - Why #Socialism?](https://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism/)

[Αλβέρτου #Αϊνστάιν «Γιατί #Σοσιαλισμός» | Erodotos Weblog](https://erodotos.wordpress.com/2010/02/25/ainstain-sosialism/)

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#anarchy #consensual order #voluntary #cooperation #mutual #aid maximization of #individual #liberty

"The #Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic #revolution. The #proletarians have nothing to lose but their #chains. They have a world to win. Working men of all countries, #unite."

—Karl #Marx and Friedrich #Engels, #Manifesto of the #Communist Party, English edition of 1888

“We are #communists. But our communism is not that of the authoritarian school: it is #anarchist communism, communism without #government, free communism. It is a synthesis of the two chief aims pursued by humanity since the dawn of its history–#economic #freedom and #political freedom.”

— Peter #Kropotkin, Anarchist Communism