Nate The Prole

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Shamrik Mukti Dal (Toilers' Liberation League)
Qumran community ruins
Shinmin Prefecture
If you think individualism is a valid concept, try reproducing alone. It's not only an ideological failure, it's biological extinction.
Fejuve, Bolivia
Teotihuacan
Tlaxcala (Nahua)
Navajo home
Tonga people
Cucuteni–Trypillia Civilisation
Twin Oaks community sign
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/640
Unist'ot'en Camp
The 'social contract', in the only sense in which it is not completely mythical, is a contract among conquerors, which loses its raison d'être if they are deprived of the benefits of conquest. - Bertrand Russell
'If voting changed anything they'd make it illegal' - Emma Goldman
Cherokee
Wendat group
Seasons Greetings From Peter Kropotkin
@robpertray Smartphones are not capitalism. Capitalism is when Apple makes it so you can't replace batteries in your iPhone and then sneaks in battery-draining code into their iOS updates so that you're compelled to buy a new iPhone 11
‘Capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil. … I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy.’ (Monthly Review, May 1949)
You watched "The Hunger Games" and sided with the resistance. You watched "Star Wars" and sided with the resistance. You watched "The Matrix" and sided with the resistance. You watched "Divergent" and sided with the resistance. You watched "V for Vendetta" and sided with the resistance. When it's fiction you understand. Yet you refuse to see it when it's the reality you're living in. Wild. Needless to say, in none of these movies was the richest man in the world part of the resistance.
Map showing that in most countries in Europe more people didn't vote than did
'If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can?' Ursula K. Le Guin
All is for all! If the man and the woman bear their fair share of work, they have a right to their fair share of all that is produced by all, and that share is enough to secure them well-being. No more of such vague formulas as "The Right to work," or "To each the whole result of his labour." What we proclaim is THE RIGHT TO WELLBEING: WELL-BEING FOR ALL! -Peter Kropotkin
‘As long as he owns your tools he owns your job, and if he owns your job he is the master of your fate. You are in no sense a free man. You are subject to his interest and to his will. He decides whether you shall work or not. Therefore, he decides whether you shall live or die. And in that humiliating position any one who tries to persuade you that you are a free man is guilty of insulting your intelligence.’ - Eugene V. Debs
‘America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role in the workplace. Once you exercise this freedom you’ve lost all control over what you do, what is produced, and how it is produced. And in the end, the product doesn’t belong to you. The only way you can avoid bosses and jobs is if you don’t care about making a living. Which leads to the second freedom: the freedom to starve.’ - Tom Morello, Guitar World
‘If stealing 100% of the product of someone’s labor is slavery, at what percentage is it NOT slavery under capitalism?’
‘In the beginning men submit only under force and coercion. But the later generations obey without regret and perform willingly what their predecessors had done grudgingly. This is why men born and reared in slavery are so content to live in slavery.’ - Étienne de la Boétie
‘We didn’t abolish slavery as an institution. We simply went from one form of slavery (chattel slavery), to another form of slavery (wage slavery). Instead of forcing people to work for nothing, we instead let people work for money needed to live, without which they risk death for not obtaining.’ - Scott Santens
‘To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.’ - Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
‘The only difference as compared with, the old, outspoken slavery is this, that the worker of today seems to be free because he is not sold once for all, but piecemeal by the day, the week, the year …’ - Friedrich Engels
‘Slavery was never abolished, it was only expanded to include everyone.’ - Charles Bukowski
‘The wise man notes that reforms change the names of things and not the things themselves. The slave became a serf, and then a salaried worker: nothing has been reformed but language.’ - Han Ryner
‘The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another’s labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live.’ - Leo Tolstoy