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Boletim#5: Entre aniversários, revoltas e mais
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Nesse boletim, fizemos uma seleção de diversos temas. Tem material sobre a Reforma do Ensino Médio, aniversário de Bakunin, novo livro do Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin, dez anos de junho de 2013 e uma agenda cheia de ati
https://bibliotecaterralivre.noblogs.org/post/2023/06/05/boletim5-entre-aniversarios-revoltas-e-mais/
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Mikhail Bakunin and Karl Martin from Lost - kiss when? #Lost #MikhailBakunin #AndrewDivoff #KarlMartin #BlakeBashoff

🏴 "What is it that brings the #capitalist to the market? It is the urge to get rich, to increase his capital, to gratify his ambitions and social vanities, to be able to indulge in all conceivable pleasures. And what brings the #worker to the market? Hunger, the necessity of eating today and tomorrow." In his essay "The Capitalist System", #MikhailBakunin explains how #capitalism is by its very nature exploitative and that there can never be #equality or #freedom as long as #capitalism exists. 📖 Read the text: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michail-bakunin-the-capitalist-system 🎙️ Or listen to the audio: https://soundcloud.com/audible-anarchist/the-capitalist-system-by-mikhail-bakunin #anarchism #anarchy

🏴 "What is it that brings the #capitalist to the market? It is the urge to get rich, to increase his capital, to gratify his ambitions and social vanities, to be able to indulge in all conceivable pleasures. And what brings the #worker to the market? Hunger, the necessity of eating today and tomorrow." In his essay "The Capitalist System", #MikhailBakunin explains how #capitalism is by its very nature exploitative and that there can never be #equality or #freedom as long as capitalsm exists. 📖 Read the text: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michail-bakunin-the-capitalist-system 🎙️ Or listen to the audio: https://soundcloud.com/audible-anarchist/the-capitalist-system-by-mikhail-bakunin #anarchism #anarchy

Just discovered Anarchist Quotes Bot. I was scrolling and found this #MikhailBakunin quote:

"The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.”

It’s such a powerful and concise quote. It’s true for a variety of reasons, and for no reason ever untrue.

It’s true because it’s the dream we fight for - a world where all peoples are free. It’s true because it is necessary for our individual freedom that all others are free. And it’s true because the extent to which others are free is the best measuring stick with which we can substantiate our own individual freedom in our communities.

More people should think about that when they see the homeless; when they see the unemployed and hear about the government’s “unemployment targets;” when they see people paying rents to landlords, working for minimum wages, sick with no health insurance, or barely able to feed and clothe themselves while working their fingers to the bone. They should remember that litmus test also when they see people of color or LGBTQ people being discriminated against, excluded and incarcerated. They should think about that quote when people with disabilities are excluded, diminished or exploited. Those ableists may not always be able bodied. They should watch how those with mental illness are treated in their community. And then ask, “What is mental illness or normal, and how free am I?”

Maybe it’s because it is a Bakunin quote, and I have been thinking about the commons lately; especially the state of our present one (no pun intended). And also because capitalist bigots (a.k.a. fascists) have been spouting a lot of exclusionary discriminatory nonsense lately about our commons and having to: “make cakes for gay couples; Black Santas appearing in the shopping malls; or school curriculum and library books that include LGBTQ people, families, and struggles, or curriculum that discusses the historical and present day systemic racism that exists in the US.” And those fascists keep complaining or arguing that their freedoms are being taken away, and “it’s all being forced on them.”

As an anarchists, here’s what I have to say about those fascist complaints. I don’t like the government controlling the commons anymore than anyone else. But here we are! This is our commons. And it’s apparently worth some description given the circumstances.

We live in a commons where our shared infrastructure is monopolized by a state. Those bakers get tax funded roads to bring customers to their establishment. They get tax funded police to secure their property. Those employers also benefit from zoning laws, occupational licensing, and a plethora of other laws that bring them potential employees to exploit for profit.

The commons in which we can build our homes, or grow our own food, is also monopolized by the state. Those landlords benefit from building codes that prevent people from living in tiny homes because, “a house has to be a certain size or on a foundation.” They benefit from tax funded police to secure more properties than they could ever afford to secure on their own - while half lay empty. The state encloses half the land in the US, but leases it back to timber companies, miners, and fossil fuel corporations, who rape the land and do not have to immediately internalize the externalities of their choices (i.e., “They get to shit where they don’t have to eat.”). Or the State grants subsidy to corporate farmers and ranchers. Yet, they tell us that housing supply and price are dictated by the markets.

Our mutual credit commons is enclosed by the Federal Reserve Bank. They create scarcity so that we must rely on them for credit, and they charge us interest. Our libraries and schools are monopolized by the state. We all must share them. Most parents who work can’t homeschool or send their children to private schools. Not everyone has internet or can afford books and must use libraries. Even our ability to organize our own healthcare has been enclosed, such that we are dependent on bosses or a political class for it. The working class’s power to negotiate with doctors and the medical industry has been utterly decimated.

I think we will someday see ever evolving and emerging diversity with respect to social systems and networks. In the meantime, we all share this same capitalist system; the same monopolized infrastructure; the same monopoly banking system; the same school system; the same libraries; and the same housing codes and spaces. And so long as we do, we are going to have radical inclusion. And it really doesn’t matter if that radical inclusion bothers anyone at this point. It’s not up for debate. We are NOT going to have politically monopolized commons that excludes or discriminates against peaceful people because they are different in some way. We will not discriminated on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex, gender, physical ability, or mental acuity. No, we will not become a fascist state.

With the exception of class, which we cannot presently exsect, although we’re working on it, we are going to have equal non-discriminatory access to credit, housing, healthcare, business, infrastructure, education, and libraries, and we’re going to allow everyone to be represented. We’re going to allow people to operate and be their authentic selves.

A bunch of those right wing “libertarians” call me a statist for advocating the use of state law to guarantee access and representation. To that I say that big ole iron fist ain’t going anywhere anytime soon, and so long as it’s there, it’s not going to allow for discrimination and exclusion in the commons it monopolizes and encloses. That’s too bad if it’s not anarchist enough for you.

The only people or philosophies that need to be excluded are those that exclude and discriminate. And the only behavior we ought to teach that is universally unethical or unwanted ought to be violent behavior, capitalist behavior, the behavior of politicians, landlords, bankers and bosses, and especially when they exclude and discriminate, because thats fascism.

O Catecismo do Revolucionário - Sergei Netchaev

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Bakunin — Article for “Il popolo d’Italia” (1865)
A letter from Paris, published in your newspaper on September 2, contains a serious attack against a little paper by the name of Candide, written by young Parisians, whose publication was immediately interrupted by order of the imperial censor. Your corres
https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/working-translations/bakunin-article-for-il-popolo-ditalia-1865/
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By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible
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By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible
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