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• We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth. It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to…
• Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the…
• States created markets. Markets require states. Neither could continue without the other, at least, in anything like the forms we would recognize…
• Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves.
• Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.
• In the largest scheme of things, just as no one has the right to tell us our true value, no one has…
• Student loans are destroying the imagination of youth. If there’s a way of a society committing mass suicide, what better way than…
• Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist.
• But in the years since the neoliberal project really has been stripped down to what was always its essence: not an economic…
• It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization.
• Consensus isn't just about agreement. It's about changing things around: You get a proposal, you work something out, people foresee problems, you…
• If you look at history, there seems to be a regular pattern: the country with the most powerful military also happens to…

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