Disobey

"Lenin is dead. We may feel for him that sort of forced admiration which strong men—even if deluded, even if wicked—who manage to leave a deep mark on history with their passage, elicit from the masses: Alexander, Julius Caesar, Loyola, Cromwell, Robespierre, Napoleon. But he, even with the best of intentions, was a tyrant, the strangler of the Russian Revolution, and we who could not love him whilst he lived cannot mourn him in death. Lenin is dead. Long live freedom!" — Errico Malatesta (February 1924)

medical misogyny is rooted in the prioritization of fertility

Germany's upper house of parliament, the Bundesrat, has approved a bill that would make it a criminal offense to publicly deny Israel's right to exist or call for the country's abolition. If approved by the lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, after the summer recess, the legislation would carry a penalty of up to five years in prison or a fine. The proposal grants Israel special legal protection despite Germany not recognizing the State of Palestine. It also reflects Germany's broader policy, including continued military support for Israel and censorship of pro-Palestinian activism.

“You can never give anyone his independence. All men are born free, they are enslaved by other men; so the only act that the men who enslaved them can do is, not give them their independence, but stop oppressing them.” – Kwame Ture

'Both the words “men” and “meat” have undergone lexicographical narrowing. Originally generic terms, they are now closely associated with their specific referents. Meat no longer means all foods; the word man, we realize, no longer includes women. Meat represents the essence or principal part of something, according to the American Heritage Dictionary. Thus we have the “meat of the matter,” “a meaty question.” To “beef up” something is to improve it. Vegetable, on the other hand, represents the least desirable characteristics: suggesting or like a vegetable, as in passivity or dullness of existence, monotonous, inactive. Meat is something one enjoys or excels in, vegetable becomes representative of someone who does not enjoy anything: a person who leads a monotonous, passive, or merely physical existence. A complete reversal has occurred in the definition of the word vegetable. Whereas its original sense was to be lively, active, it is now viewed as dull, monotonous, passive. To vegetate is to lead a passive existence; just as to be feminine is to lead a passive existence. Once vegetables are viewed as women’s food, then by association they become viewed as “feminine,” passive. Men’s need to disassociate themselves from women’s food (as in the myth in which the last hunter flees in the direction opposite from women and their vegetable food) has been institutionalized in sexist attitudes toward vegetables and the use of the word vegetable to express criticism or disdain. Colloquially it is a synonym for a person severely brain-damaged or in a coma. In addition, vegetables are thought to have a tranquilizing, dulling, numbing effect on people who consume them, and so we can not possibly get strength from them. According to this perverse incarnation of Brillat-Savarin’s theory that you are what you eat, to eat a vegetable is to become a vegetable, and by extension, to become womanlike. Examples from the 1988 Presidential Campaign in which each candidate was belittled through equation with being a vegetable illustrates this patriarchal disdain for vegetables. Michael Dukakis was called “the Vegetable Plate Candidate.” Northern Sun Merchandising offered T-shirts that asked: “George Bush: Vegetable or Noxious Weed?” One could opt for a shirt that featured a bottle of ketchup and a picture of Ronald Reagan with this slogan: “Nutrition Quiz: Which one is the vegetable?” The word vegetable acts as a synonym for women’s passivity because women are supposedly like plants. Hegel makes this clear: “The difference between men and women is like that between animals and plants. Men correspond to animals, while women correspond to plants because their development is more placid.” From this viewpoint, both women and plants are seen as less developed and less evolved than men and animals. Consequently, women may eat plants, since each is placid; but active men need animal meat.' – Carol J Adams, The Sexual Politics of Meat - A Feminist-Vegan Critical Theory

"...movements unshaped by we primary targets of fascism will never liberate us." — Estelle Ellison, The Anarchism of Despair https://www.patreon.com/posts/anarchism-of-159521871

"We long ago reached a point where hand-built furniture became a luxury good and, in many ways, that should serve as an indicator to many how little their dollar is actually worth now. When the makers can't afford their own work, something is wrong. Carpenters living under bridges (yes that has been a real thing for years in Vancouver), grocery store workers going hungry, daycare workers unable to afford having kids of their own... This system is not sustainable and it's up to us to build our own alternatives that cut the rulers out. Parallel economies that resist the hoarding of wealth. Things like time banks. And in order for these things to be possible, we also need universal healthcare, which is why the ruling class seeks to end it across the globe. Our personal wealth is a sham. Our possessions are low quality and fleeting. Fast fashion is, ultimately, a subscription service. Ovens are designed to break within 8 years. If your health declines and you need medication, your health becomes a subscription service, too, dependent on the exploitive system we live under. Meanwhile, billionaires scribble on paper and declare they now own vast swaths of farmland that they'll use as a vacation spot once every 10 years. But this system requires our ongoing cooperation. We can stop cooperating by building off-ramps together. Even small changes will make a difference." — Nic the Briny

"We will not blame him for the crimes of his ancestors if he relinquishes the royal rights of his ancestors; but as long as he claims their rights, by virtue of descent, then, by virtue of descent, he must shoulder the responsibility for their crimes." — James Connolly, Irish socialist revolutionary on King George V

kids have no autonomy at all

"Every homeless person you see on the streets has been put there by force or the threat of force by the police to protect the profits of landowners and landlords and less directly to act as an example and threat for workers who might otherwise be less willing to accept unjust wages and working conditions." – boringkate on tumblr

“Stirner’s egoism is not an appeal for individuals to be less altruistic, but only to become aware of the fact that seemingly altruistic behavior can be separated into that which is motivated by a personal interest in, or love for, the other, or by a sense of duty, of holy obligation. Stirner agitates only against the latter motivation for behavior, showing that duty relates to an abstract concept of universal good, or universal interest, which exists only as a spook. Far from denying cooperation, Stirner animates the individual to associate freely in whatever constellation is capable of advancing his or her own interest.” — Elmo Feiten, Will the Real Max Stirner Please Stand Up?

'It's the old American Double Standard, ya know: Say one thing, do somethin' different. And of course this country is founded on the double standard, that's our history! We were founded on a very basic double standard: This country was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free. Am I right? A group of slave owners who wanted to be free! So they killed a lot of white English people, in order to continue owning their black African people, so they could wipe out of the rest of the red Indian people, so they move west and steal the rest of the land from the brown Mexican people, giving them a place to take off and drop their nuclear weapons on the yellow Japanese people. You know what the motto of this country ought to be? "You give us a color, we'll wipe it out!"' — George Carlin

"I have no love for America, as such; I have no patriotism. I have no country. What country have I? The Institutions of this Country do not know me—do not recognize me as a man. I am not thought of, spoken of, in any direction, out of the Anti-Slavery ranks, as a man. I am not thought of or spoken of, except as a piece of property belonging to some Christian Slaveholder, and all the Religious and Political Institutions of this Country alike pronounce me a Slave and a chattel. Now, in such a country as this I cannot have patriotism." — Frederick Douglass, Country, Conscience, and the Anti-Slavery Cause Still from Patton (1970)

"I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity. I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the grossest of all libels." Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845)

"Is it possible for a class which exterminates the native peoples of the Americas, replaces them by raping Africa for humans it then denigrates and dehumanizes as slaves, while cheapening and degrading its own working class—is it possible for such a class to create a democracy, equality and to advance the cause of human freedom?" — George Jackson

"oh you thought this was a rabbit?"