@astheroth@leyonhjelm@p@0@sim "The problem became obscured in various ways. When speaking of Communism, most people think of the more or less Christian and monastic and always authoritarian Communism advocated in the first half of this century and practised in certain communities. These communities took the family as a model and tried to constitute “the great Communist family” to “reform man”." https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-communism-and-anarchy
@NonPlayableClown@leyonhjelm@astheroth @p@fsebugoutzone.org @0@sim "Are you so blinded, so much a prisoner of your own authoritarian ideas, that you do not realise that being at the head of European Communism, you have no right to soil the ideas which you defend by shameful methods … What future lies in store for Communism when one of its most important defenders tramples in this way every honest feeling?" https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Peter_Kropotkin
@0@leyonhjelm@p@sim "That is the essential politico-economic nature of Communism. It is neither workable nor possible on any other basis. It is necessarily libertarian, Anarchistic.
@paninid "We find, in the rules laid down by the greatest English Judges, who have been the brightest of mankind; We are to look upon it as more beneficial, that many guilty persons should escape unpunished, than one innocent person should suffer. The reason is, because it’s of more importance to community, that innocence should be protected, than it is, that guilt should be punished…" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_ratio
@AlabasterBrick@thehill "...In connection with the Jewish question I have this to say: it is a shameful spectacle to see how the whole democratic world is oozing sympathy for the poor tormented Jewish people, but remains hard-hearted and obdurate when it comes to helping them which is surely, in view of its attitude, an obvious duty." https://www.yadvashem.org/docs/extract-from-hitler-speech.html
@thehill "With the launch of the first cruise missiles the AFL-CIO trade union federation dropped any pretense of opposition and lined up squarely behind the Bush administration’s war on Iraq. With its fulsome support for this criminal and unprovoked war, the American trade union bureaucracy has once again revealed its social and political essence: it is an arm of the US ruling elite and an instrument of American imperialism." https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2003/04/aflc-a04.html
@EvolLove@salyer "It is my firm conviction that if the State suppressed capitalism by violence, it will be caught in the coils of violence itself, and fail to develop non-violence at any time. The state represents violence in a concentrated and organized form. The Individual has a soul, but as the state is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence." https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi
@br00t4c "How was it that he was able to put this monstrous vision across? It is easy to say that at one stage of his career he was financed by the heavy industrialists, who saw in him the man who would smash the Socialists and Communists." https://bookmarks.reviews/george-orwells-1940-review-of-mein-kampf/
"Women are the fastest growing incarcerated population in the U.S. Just four percent of the world’s female population lives in this country, yet nearly one-third of all the female prisoners in the entire world are held here. Most of these women are mothers, and their incarceration ripples through their families and communities."https://www.aclu.org/issues/womens-rights/women-and-criminal-justice/how-incarcerating-women-fuels-our-mass-incarceration#Women #MassIncarceration #WarOnDrugs