#theconquestofbread

2023-09-02

Couple more amble pics. I’m currently reading #TheConquestOfBread by #PiotrKropotkin and watching #TheOffice. If that doesn’t bring down the neoliberal hegemony then I’ll be a monkey’s uncle.

Landscape heather-covered moorland beneath a blue sky a large stone tower on the left, a cocker spaniel on a lead standing looking over toward Manchester in the distanceWoodland a stream running through the trees, a set of square stepping stones across the stream, a cocker spaniel standing by the stonesLandscape - a lake in woods, a pair of walking boots with a cocker spaniel looking back through the feet
phryk 🏴phryk
2020-08-02

"All is for all! If the man and the woman bear their fair share of work, they have a right to their fair share of all that is produced by all, and that share is enough to secure them well-being. No more of such vague formulas as “The Right to work,” or “To each the whole result of his labour.” What we proclaim is THE RIGHT TO WELL-BEING: WELL-BEING FOR ALL!"

phryk 🏴phryk
2020-08-02

"But if the forms have changed, the relations have remained the same, and the worker is forced, under the name of free contract, to accept feudal obligations. For, turn where he will, he can find no better conditions. Everything has become private property, and he must accept, or die of hunger."

phryk 🏴phryk
2020-08-02

"And if the children of those who perished by thousands while excavating the railway cuttings and tunnels were to assemble one day, crowding in their rags and hunger, to demand bread from the shareholders, they would be met with bayonets and grape-shot, to disperse them and safeguard “vested interests.”"

As it was a century ago, so it is today.

phryk 🏴phryk
2020-08-02

"Millions of human beings have laboured to create this civilization on which we pride ourselves today. Other millions, scattered through the globe, labour to maintain it. Without them nothing would be left in fifty years but ruins."

phryk 🏴phryk
2020-08-02

"We, in civilized societies, are rich. Why then are the many poor? Why this painful drudgery for the masses? Why, even to the best paid workman, this uncertainty for the morrow, in the midst of all the wealth inherited from the past, and in spite of the powerful means of production, which could ensure comfort to all in return for a few hours of daily toil?"

phryk 🏴phryk
2020-08-02

"The free agro-industrial communes, of which so much was spoken in 1848, need not be small phalansteries, or small communities of 2000 persons.

They must be vast agglomerations, like Paris, or, still better, small territories.

These communes would federate, even irrespectively of national frontiers (like the Cinque Ports, or the Hansa) ; and large labour associations might come into existence for the inter-communal service of the railways, the docks, and so on."

"read the bread book" says every anarchist I know all the time. Ok ok, I'll read it

Me, one hour later: "READ THE BREAD BOOK"

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For real though, so far it is pretty great

#nowreading #books #theconquestofbread #anarachy #anarchism #pol #bookRecommendations

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