Murray Bookchin - “Social anarchism or Lifestyle anarchism” :
http://libcom.org/library/socanlifean1
from the second chapter:
“As a credo, individualist anarchism remained largely a bohemian lifestyle, most conspicuous in its demands for sexual freedom (‘free love’) and enamored of innovations in art, behavior, and clothing.”
and here is bookchin in wikipedia:
Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye
And all my soul, and all my every part;
And for this sin there is no remedy,
It is so grounded inward in my heart.
Methinks no face so gracious is as mine,
No shape so true, no truth of such account;
from Shakespeare’s sonnet no. 62
Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead.
Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
“The mutual-aid tendency in man has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution of the human race, that is has been maintained by mankind up to the present time, notwithstanding all vicissitudes of history.” - Peter Kropotkin
Anarcho-Communism :
“MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains” - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Link to: “the social contract - or principles of political right”
The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and cooperation. It will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life.
Adolf Hitler, My New World Order, Proclamation to the German Nation at Berlin, February 1, 1933
(I had to bring this up because someone kept claiming Hitler’s actions were motivated by a lack of “jesus in his life”, in short, comparing him to me.)
“The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building” - Benito Mussolini
“The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!” - Pierre joseph proudhon
Fascism is a set of ideologies and practices that seeks to place the nation, defined in exclusive biological, cultural, and/or historical terms, above all other sources of loyalty, and to create a mobilized national community. Fascist nationalism is reactionary in that it entails implacable hostility to socialism and feminism, for they are seen as prioritizing class or gender rather than nation. This is why fascism is a movement of the extreme right. Fascism is also a movement of the radical right because the defeat of socialism and feminism and the creation of the mobilized nation are held to depend upon the advent to power of a new elite acting in the name of the people, headed by a charismatic leader, and embodied in a mass, militarized party. Fascists are pushed towards conservatism by common hatred of socialism and feminism, but are prepared to override conservative interests - family, property, religion, the universities, the civil service - where the interests of the nation are considered to require it. Fascist radicalism also derives from a desire to assuage discontent by accepting specific demands of the labour and women’s movements, so long as these demands accord with the national priority. Fascists seek to ensure the harmonization of workers’ and women’s interests with those of the nation by mobilizing them within special sections of the party and/or within a corporate system. Access to these organizations and to the benefits they confer upon members depends on the individual’s national, political, and/or racial characteristics. All aspects of fascist policy are suffused with ultranationalism
Kevin Passmore, “Fascism: a very short introduction”
(The definition he gives is directly descended from the view put forth by Ernesto Laclau)
Democracy - or the miserable parliamentary version of it that we have today - is merely another representation fiction that disguises the reality of state domination. Anarchists regarded democratic parliamentary regimes with the same contempt as authoritarian or monarchical regimes - in fact, the former may well be more insidious because it creates the illusion that state power is based on consent and popular sovereignty.
In reality, however, the state is always the same - its structural principle is always domination and violence, no matter what form it takes. Whether it be the monarchical state, the parliamentary state or even the workers’ state, the violence of the sovereign always lurks just below the surface…
…Today democracy has become nothing more than a media spectacle - a purely formal and increasingly meaningless ritual characterized by “spin doctoring” and the fetishism of opinion polls. The fact that democratic governments ignored the protests of hundreds of thousands of their citizens in 2003 against the war in Iraq shows what formal democracy has become in the post-September 11 world.
Democracy is simply the organizer of the capitalist neo-liberal consensus: in other words, democracy - or capitalist parliamentarianism, as Badiou prefers to call it - refers today to little more than the free market. Worse still, it has become the standard bearer for western militarism: “democracy” as a signifier is used to enforce a series of discursive divisions between the “civilized” West and “barbaric” East, between the Judeo-Christian and Islamic, between “us” and “them”, it used to divide the political field, separating democratic or “democratizing” regimes from “rogue states” - those that may be subject to military intervention.
Saul Newman, “Anarchism, Poststructuralism and the future of Radical Politics”
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/sub/summary/v036/36.2newman.html
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time
Karl Heinrich Marx
know your enemy
“If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery” - Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin
for more information about Bakunin:
