“Either this organization of injustice with its entire machine of oppressive laws and privileged institutions, must disappear, or else the proletariat is condemned to eternal slavery. This is the quintessence of the socialist idea, whose germs can be found in the instinct of every serious thinking worker.”
— Mikhail Bakunin, The Policy of the International (via philosophybits)
“in a world without bodily autonomy” “that already happened”
i think people are mistaking the point of dystopian literature as “trying to imagine a worse world” rather than “trying to point out how fucked up our world is right now”
When a Dystopian author predicted something, it’s not that they had hyper awareness or a supernatural divination talent, but that they saw a problem, went “look at that, it’s going to go very bad if we don’t do something”
