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“These contradictions, of course, lead to explosions, crises, in which momentary suspension of all labour and annihilation of a great part of the capital violently lead it back to the point where it is enabled [to go on] fully employing its productive powers without committing suicide. Yet, these regularly recurring catastrophes lead to their repetition on a higher scale, and finally to its violent overthrow. There are moments in the developed movement of capital which delay this movement other than by crises; such as e.g. the constant devaluation of a part of the existing capital: the transformation of a great part of capital into fixed capital which does not serve as agency of direct production; unproductive waste of a great portion of capital etc.”

— Karl Marx, Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy, Share via Whatsapp

“Overlooked in this ominous depiction might be our country’s best- kept secret: in dealing with the most challenging issues of every gener- ation, resistance to duplicitous civil authority and its corporate enablers has defined our quintessential American story.”

— Jeff Biggers, Resistance: Reclaiming an American Tradition, Share via Whatsapp

“And in the darkness I smile at life, as if I were the possessor of charm which would enable me to transform all that is evil and tragical into serenity and happiness. But when I search my mind for the cause of this joy, I find there is no cause, and can only laugh at myself.”

— Rosa Luxemburg, Letters from Prison to Sophie Liebknecht: July 1916–October 1918, Share via Whatsapp

“თუ ცეკვა ჭეშმარიტია, ის აუცილებლად რევოლუციით მთავრდება, თუ არა და დილისკენ ადამიანები ტოვებენ კლუბებს მწარე ატხადნიაკით და მელანქოლიით იმის გამო, რომ რევოლუცია ისევ არ შედგა.”

— Zura Jishkariani, საღეჭი განთიადები: Sugar Free, Share via Whatsapp

“Luther’s revolution had, like all great revolutions, failed. But like all great revolutions, it had created a new world.”

— Alec Ryrie, Protestants: The Faith That Made the Modern World, Share via Whatsapp

“If you will it, it s not a dream.”

— Theodor Herzl, Share via Whatsapp

“Behind every fascism there is a failed revolution.”

— Walter Benjamin, Share via Whatsapp

“Weapons are just an extension of how we feel (about ourselves and this world)”

— Vineet Raj Kapoor, Share via Whatsapp

“Picking up a gun is easy, you can never put it back!”

— Vineet Raj Kapoor, Share via Whatsapp

“The Sabbat arose as a conspiracy to destroy the rotten edifice of Church and State, meeting on the heath to avoid the gaze of authority, guised in anonymity and foreboding. This revolutionized the nature of witchcraft, regardless of the pre-existence of the Sabbat form. I do not simply refer here to the inspiring fantasies of Jules Michelet, but the important modern work of Silvia Federici. We see the same attacks on freedom of assembly in the destruction of the free festivals, rave culture and the occupy movement. These have been met by the masked Anonymous, the faceless black bloc anarchists, the direct actions of the ELF. These are expressions of popular witchcraft and have been persecuted by the same inquisition that came for us. I do not say that these are examples of operative witchcraft, I say that we, the people who are the Witchcraft, have a sacred duty to join this war. We need to celebrate Grand Sabbats again, infuse them with our witchblood, our cunning.”

— Peter Grey, Apocalyptic Witchcraft, Share via Whatsapp

“The class-struggle is the main source of progress, and therefore the nobleman who robs the peasant and goads him to revolt is playing a necessary part, just as much as the Jacobin who guillotines the nobleman.”

— George Orwell, Share via Whatsapp

“Struggle is daily action against ourselves and against the enemy.”

— Amilcar Cabral, Share via Whatsapp

“Revolutionaries need poets, too.”

— Slavoj Žižek, Share via Whatsapp

“I will weep with you over the children of kings, provided that you will weep with me over the children of the people”

— Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, Share via Whatsapp

“Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it.”

— A.J.P. Taylor, The Communist Manifesto, Share via Whatsapp

“Marx was concerned to change society or rather, if he adhered rigidly to his system, expected society to change in the way he wanted.”

— A.J.P. Taylor, The Communist Manifesto, Share via Whatsapp

“Revolutions occurred in almost every European city with more than 50,000 inhabitants. The occasion for the revolutions was hunger.”

— A.J.P. Taylor, The Communist Manifesto, Share via Whatsapp