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We are so steeped in the spirit of violence that we never stop to ask whether violence is right or wrong. We only ask if it is legal, whether the law permits it. You don’t question the right of the government to kill, to confiscate and imprison. If a private person should be guilty of the things the government is doing all the time, you’d brand him a murderer, thief and scoundrel. But as long as the violence committed is “lawful,” you approve of it and submit to it. So it is not really violence that you object to, but to people using violence “unlawfully.” This lawful violence and the fear of it dominate our whole existence, individual and collective. Authority controls our lives from the cradle to the grave—authority parental, priestly and divine, political, economic, social, and moral.

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—	Alexander Berkman (via blitzkriegwitchcraft)

alpine-insurrection:

Left Unity!

fuckyeahanarchistposters:

“The question is not: who has the guns? But rather: what do the people with the guns do? 10,000 or 100,000 proletarians armed to the teeth are nothing if they place their trust in anything beside their own power to change the world. Otherwise, the next day, the next month or the next year, the power whose authority they recognise will take away the guns which they failed to use against it.”
When insurrections die - Gilles Dauvé

On This Day: June 30

meadowlarkproject:

1839: Joseph Cinqué leads successful slave revolt on the ship Amistad.
1840: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s What Is Property? is published.
1874: Socialist writer Fritz Brupbacher born in Zürich.
1882: Robert Louzon born in Paris. He was an engineer, revolutionary syndicalist, anarchist and socialist. Louzon was involved in the Confédération générale du travail (CGT) and then in the anarchist Confédération nationale du travail (CNT).
1885: Chicago Streetcar Strike begins.
1892: Start of the Homestead Steel Strike.
1909: Large meeting organized by the Free Speech Society is held at Cooper Union to protest harassment of anarchist speaker Emma Goldman and to win back the right of free speech. Speakers include former congressman Robert Baker, Alden Freeman, Voltairine de Cleyre, James P. Morton, and Harry Kelly. Telegrams from Eugene Debs and others are also read.
1918: Eugene Debs arrested in Cleveland for obstructing drafting for the army and navy.
1920: Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman travel to Moscow to collect permits necessary for their museum expedition through Russia to gather historical material.
1921: Fedir Shchus dies in a fight with the 8th Division of Red Cossacks. He was a commander in the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine of Nestor Makhno.
1930: Francisco Saverio Merlino dies in Rome. He was a lawyer, anarchist activist and theorist of libertarian socialism.
1935: Alexander Berkman is buried in Nice.
1936: The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its first congress.
1957: Anarchist, poet, and activist José Oiticica dies in Rio de Janeiro. Grandfather of the Brazilian artist and anarchist, Hélio Oiticica.
1960: Congo gains independence from Belgium.
1966: The National Organization of Women (NOW) is founded in Washington, DC.
1967: Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers union merges into United Steelworkers of America.
1983: Start of Phelps Dodge Strike in the copper towns of Arizona as 2,000 miners strike.
1984: Lillian Hellman dies in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts. She was a left-wing author who refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
1998: A group of 100 people manages to enter the buildings of the Constitutional Council of France. One of them seizes an original specimen of the constitution, tears it, declaring: “The dictatorship of capitalism is abolished. The workers declare anarchist communism.”
1998: 40,000 construction workers demonstrate in Manhattan over Metropolitan Transportation Authority contract to a non-union company.

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Leon Czolgosz’s Iver Johnson Safety Automatic revolver used to assassinate President William McKinley - .32 S&W

Sacco and Vanzetti

Rest in Power

descentintotyranny:

My Guns Saved My Life when the state and the liberals left me to die. – The Mockingbird
I own firearms. I’m a leftist. Not a #feelthebern leftist. Bernie is too far to the right for me. Because of my politics, men have come to my home to kill me. This has happened more than once. When it did happen the only things that saved my life, and the lives of my roommates, were training and the physical possession of effective tools.
I’ll tell one story that will put the current clamor for more control on everyone and everything in perspective. I was actively organizing against the KKK and other white supremacists. So were my roommates and my entire social circle. The FBI attempted to contact me but claimed they could not find me. They got a call from a payphone via an intermediary. The agent, tired and wishing he didnt have to do this said “I am required by statute to inform you that we have credible threats against your life from white power groups.” He got my lawyer’s phone number. I was not going to talk to him.
It was really clear that the FBI would rather bungle the investigation of my death than prevent it. We detected the surveillance attempts by the white supremacists. We allowed their surveillance to see that we were well armed. They went away. The FBI did not have us under surveillance. There was a police precinct house three blocks away. The police were never on our block. We were being set up to die.
The FBI knew what these guys were up to. The FBI knew where we were because these nazis did. Planning to murder someone in conjunction with another person and then putting your target under surveillance is a felony. It is conspiracy to commit murder. The FBI could have arrested and prosecuted these guys at any time. The FBI did not do so. The police were actively not present. The FBI did what was the barest minimum. We saved our own lives and we only could do so because we were armed.
This was not the only time in my life this happened.
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But what about human nature? Can it be changed? And if not, will it endure under Anarchism?

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson to the visionless dabbler in science, presumes to speak authoritatively of human nature. The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet, how can any one speak of it today, with every soul in a prison, with every heart fettered, wounded, and maimed?

John Burroughs has stated that experimental study of animals in captivity is absolutely useless. Their character, their habits, their appetites undergo a complete transformation when torn from their soil in field and forest. With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities?

Freedom, expansion, opportunity, and, above all, peace and repose, alone can teach us the real dominant factors of human nature and all its wonderful possibilities.

Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government. Anarchism stands for a social order based on the free grouping of individuals for the purpose of producing real social wealth; an order that will guarantee to every human being free access to the earth and full enjoyment of the necessities of life, according to individual desires, tastes, and inclinations.

This is not a wild fancy or an aberration of the mind. It is the conclusion arrived at by hosts of intellectual men and women the world over; a conclusion resulting from the close and studious observation of the tendencies of modern society: individual liberty and economic equality, the twin forces for the birth of what is fine and true in man.

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—	Emma Goldman (via uglyuglyugly2)