Resistance&Ground

What are your thoughts? The society or the individual? Don’t both have responsibilities to the other?

It’s a good feeling when the politics start coming to you.

"Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It means the development of the individual, as well as the assertion of the individual. It means self-responsibility, and not leader-worship.

Anarchism…teaches the possibility of a society in which the needs of life may be fully supplied for all, and in which the opportunities for complete development of mind and body shall be the heritage of all…It teaches that the present unjust organisation of the production and distribution of wealth must finally be completely destroyed, and replaced by a system which will insure to each the liberty to work, without first seeking a master to whom he or she must surrender a tithe of his or her product, which will guarantee his liberty of access to the sources and means of production…

Out of the blindly submissive, it makes the discontented; out of the unconsciously dissatisfied, it makes the consciously dissatisfied…Anarchism seeks to arouse the consciousness of oppression, the desire for a better society, and a sense of the necessity for unceasing warfare against capitalism and the State.”

★Voltairine de Cleyre

17th November 1866, the 'exquisite rebel' and American anarchist, Voltairine de Cleyre, is born into extreme, but educated poverty and is named after the French Enlightenment author Voltaire. Best known for being a prolific writer, poet and speaker, and for her staunch and vocal opposition to capitalism, to the state, to marriage, and to the domination of religion over sexuality and women's lives.

Her rebel life started early - she learned the art of debate and her lifelong atheism at a strict convent school: "The first act of life was to kick against an unjust decree of our parents, and we have unflinchingly stood for the kicking principle ever since. Now, if the word kicking is in bad repute with you, substitute non-submission, insubordination, rebellion, revolt, revolution, whatever name you please which expresses non-acquiescence to injustice."

★Voltairine de Cleyre