Mikhail Bakhtin Quote

If your political theory requires humanity to "evolve", then you do not have a theory.... you have a dream.

Most schooling is training for stupidity and conformity, and that's institutional, but occasionally you get a spark, somebody'll challenge your mind, make you think and so on, and that has a tremendou...

The voices of actual communities are alive in a way no theory could every be even if, for now, it takes the form of tiny acts of resistance. Who doesn't cheat on taxes, avoid cops, or skip class? Thes...

Crowned heads, wealth and privilege may well tremble should ever again the Black and Red unite!"-after the split between Anarchists and Marxists in 1872

Well, you have said that you were quite certain I was not a serious anarchist. Does this place strike you as being serious?It does seem to have a moral under all its gaiety, assented Syme; but may I a...

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.

Accident - A statistical inevitability. Some nuclear power plants are built on fault lines, but ever mine, dam, oil rig, and waste dump is founded upon a tacit acceptance of the worst-case scenario. O...

More often than not, a statist's argument against Anarchism boils down to an unwillingness to take control and responsibility for their own lives, actions, and communities. The sad truth is that the h...

Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, general...