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anarchy forever

Posted by: Piper ( Aus ) on January 31, 19100 at 13:12:35:

"Real wealth consists in things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in. But if man is doomed to wind cotton around a spool, or dig coal, or build roads for thirty years of his life, there can be no talk of wealth. What he gives to the world is only gray and hideous things, reflecting a dull and hideous existence,--too weak to live, too cowardly to die. Strange to say, there are people who extol this deadening method of centralized production as the proudest achievement of our age. They fail utterly to realize that if we are to continue in machine subserviency, our slavery is more complete than was our bondage to the King. They do not want to know that centralization is not only the death-knell of liberty, but also of health and beauty, of art and science, all these being impossible in a clock-like, mechanical atmosphere."
(http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/goldman/aando/anarchism.html)
Cheers to that!

Follow Ups:

One paragraph utopias forver! Stoller February 01 19100 (14)
- Yeah right Barry, evidence? Or is that an opinion? Lark February 02 19100 (0)
- Why don't you just run me over with your tank Piper February 01 19100 (12)
  - Tank? Another nasty debating style Stoller February 01 19100 (11)
    - Bitter as Lemons Barry Lark February 02 19100 (2)
      - Cheeseburgers! Barry Stoller February 02 19100 (1)
        
        With relish I trust... Lark February 02 19100 (0)
    - You are seriously suggesting what Marx wrote is not utopian? Piper February 02 19100 (7)
      - You've been eating too many hot dogs before bedtime, junior Barry Stoller February 02 19100 (6)
        
        Does that 'junior' reference mean i should call you 'pops'? Piper February 02 19100 (5)
        
        Yawn... go play in the street... Barry Stoller February 03 19100 (4)
        
        Getting tired 'junior'? Piper February 03 19100 (3)
        
        I'm not Samuel Day Fassbinder Citizens for Mustard Greens USA February 03 19100 (2)
        
        rejoinder Piper February 04 19100 (0)
        
        agreeing Piper Aus February 03 19100 (0)
Socialism forever!! Lark January 31 19100 (5)
- chomsky Piper February 01 19100 (4)
  - For what it's worth MDG February 01 19100 (3)
    - I believe Chomsky is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America Lark February 02 19100 (2)
      - I thought he was an anarcho-syndicalist. MDG February 02 19100 (1)
        
        it's foolish to believe that any good alternative will come about through anything other than a really arduous and gradual process. Lark February 03 19100 (0)