I do not want you to follow me or anyone else; if you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of this capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into the promised land if I could, because if I led you in, some one else would lead you out. You must use your heads as well as your hands, and get yourself out of your present condition; as it is now the capitalists use your heads and your hands.
Eugene V. Debs (via neonmojo)
Once u fucked the baddest bitches in cambodia and norway and been to palaces in the jungle with zillionaires drinkin 100 yr old absinthe with prime minsters sidejawns - then end up at wmc w shitty euro/us #EDM fans u realize u just wanna die as ralph waldo emerson david thoreau broke in a cabin or something #EDM
Diplo (via tenderman)
“Jack London not only absorbed creatively the impetus given by the first Russian Revolution but also courageously thought over again in its light the fate of capitalist society as a whole. Precisely those problems which the official socialism of this time considered to be definitely buried: the growth of wealth and power at one pole, of misery and destitution at the other pole; the accumulation of social bitterness and hatred; the unalterable preparation of bloody cataclysms - all those questions Jack London felt with an intrepidity which forces one to ask himself again and again with astonishment: when was this written?” - Trotsky on Jack London and his novel The Iron Heel
“…You have to know how to evaluate, interpret and understand…cutlivating that capacity, to seek what`s significant, always willing to question whether you`re on the right track. That`s what education is gonna be about, using the computer and the internet or pencil, paper and books.”
- Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky on the Purpose of Education
On the value of cultivating the capacity to seek the significant.
“Passing tests doesn’t begin to compare with searching and inquiring and pursuing topics that engage us and excite us. That’s far more significant than passing tests and, in fact, if that’s the kind of educational career you’re given the opportunity to pursue, you will remember what you discovered.”
(Source: brainpickings.org)
Noam Chomsky’s Thoughts on Occupy Wall Street
Anarchism, please.
So it doesn’t mean a society in which there is, literally speaking, no government, so much as a society in which the primary source of authority comes, as it were, from the bottom up, and not the top down.
- Peter Jay, interviewing Noam Chomsky on his interpretation of Anarchism
Sign me up.
do we want to have a society of free creative independent individuals able to appreciate and gain from the cultural achievements of the past and to add to them , do we want that ?
or do we want people who can increase GDP ?
they’re not the same thing.
Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)
Chomsky explaining the basics of Anarchism
