Forwarded from Disobey
"The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power."
— Simone de Beauvoir
— Simone de Beauvoir
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“After all, nobody can spend more than he has:—this is true of individuals, it is also true of nations. If you spend your strength in acquiring power, or in politics on a large scale, or in economy, or in universal commerce, or in parliamentarism, or in military interests—if you dissipate the modicum of reason, of earnestness, of will, and of self-control that constitutes your nature in one particular fashion, you cannot dissipate it in another. Culture and the state—let no one be deceived on this point—are antagonists: A “culture-state” is merely a modern idea. The one lives upon the other, the one flourishes at the expense of the other. All great periods of culture have been periods of political decline; that which is great from the standpoint of culture, was always unpolitical—even anti-political.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche,
The Twilight of the Idols
— Friedrich Nietzsche,
The Twilight of the Idols
“Work gets more and more of the good conscience to its side: the desire for enjoyment is already called ‘the need for recreation,’ and even begins to be ashamed of itself. “One owes it to one's health,” people say, when they are caught on a country trip. Yes, it might soon go so far that one could not yield to the desire for the vita contemplativa (i.e., excursions with thoughts and friends), without self-contempt and bad conscience.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
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Forwarded from /r/COMPLETEANARCHY
Stop obeying! The government and the police are your enemies.
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“The most industrious of all ages—ours—does not know how to make anything of all its industriousness and money, except always still more money and still more industriousness; for it requires more genius to spend than to acquire. —Well, we shall have our “grandchildren”!”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
Forwarded from Disobey
“To the activity of priestly minds belongs especially what one often hears called ‘moral influence’.
Moral influence takes its start where humiliation begins; yes, it is nothing else than this humiliation itself, the breaking and bending of the temper [Mutes] down to humility [Demut]. If I call to someone to run away when a rock is to be blasted, I exert no moral influence by this demand; if I say to a child ‘you will go hungry if you will not eat what is put on the table’, this is not moral influence. But, if I say to it, ‘you will pray, honour your parents, respect the crucifix, speak the truth, for this belongs to man and is man's calling’, or even ‘this is God's will’, then moral influence is complete; then a man is to bend before the calling of man, be tractable, become humble, give up his will for an alien one which is set up as rule and law; he is to abase himself before something higher: self-abasement. ‘He that abaseth himself shall be exalted’ [Matthew 23:12 etc]. Yes, yes, children must early be made to practise piety, godliness, and propriety; a person of good breeding is one into whom ‘good maxims’ have been instilled and impressed, poured in through a funnel [eingetrichtert], thrashed in and preached in.”
Moral influence takes its start where humiliation begins; yes, it is nothing else than this humiliation itself, the breaking and bending of the temper [Mutes] down to humility [Demut]. If I call to someone to run away when a rock is to be blasted, I exert no moral influence by this demand; if I say to a child ‘you will go hungry if you will not eat what is put on the table’, this is not moral influence. But, if I say to it, ‘you will pray, honour your parents, respect the crucifix, speak the truth, for this belongs to man and is man's calling’, or even ‘this is God's will’, then moral influence is complete; then a man is to bend before the calling of man, be tractable, become humble, give up his will for an alien one which is set up as rule and law; he is to abase himself before something higher: self-abasement. ‘He that abaseth himself shall be exalted’ [Matthew 23:12 etc]. Yes, yes, children must early be made to practise piety, godliness, and propriety; a person of good breeding is one into whom ‘good maxims’ have been instilled and impressed, poured in through a funnel [eingetrichtert], thrashed in and preached in.”
Forwarded from Disobey
Disobey
“To the activity of priestly minds belongs especially what one often hears called ‘moral influence’. Moral influence takes its start where humiliation begins; yes, it is nothing else than this humiliation itself, the breaking and bending of the temper [Mutes]…
“If one shrugs his shoulders at this, at once the good wring their hands despairingly, and cry: ‘But, for heaven's sake, if one is to give children no good instruction, why, then they will run straight into the jaws of sin, and become good-for-nothings!’ Gently, you prophets of evil. Good-for-nothing in your sense they certainly will become; but your sense happens to be a very good-for-nothing sense. The impudent rogues will no longer let anything be whined and chattered into them by you, and will have no sympathy for all the follies for which you have been raving and drivelling since the memory of man began; they will abolish the law of inheritance; they will not be willing to inherit your stupidities as you inherited them from your fathers; they destroy inherited sin. If you command them, ‘Bend before the Most High’, they will answer: ‘If he wants to bend us, let him come himself and do it; we, at least, will not bend of our own accord.’ And, if you threaten them with his wrath and his punishment, they will take it like being threatened with the bogey-man. If you are no more successful in making them afraid of ghosts, then the dominion of ghosts is at an end, and nurses' tales find no – faith.
And is it not precisely the liberals again that press for good education and improvement of the educational system? For how could their liberalism, their ‘liberty within the bounds of law’, come about without discipline? Even if they do not exactly educate to the fear of God, yet they demand the fear of man all the more strictly, and awaken ‘enthusiasm for the truly human calling’ by discipline.”
— Max Stirner
And is it not precisely the liberals again that press for good education and improvement of the educational system? For how could their liberalism, their ‘liberty within the bounds of law’, come about without discipline? Even if they do not exactly educate to the fear of God, yet they demand the fear of man all the more strictly, and awaken ‘enthusiasm for the truly human calling’ by discipline.”
— Max Stirner
“In every prevalent morality and religion: the reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and to ask for reasons and purposes. At this point the conservatives of all ages are thoroughly dishonest: they add lies.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
“Under the regime of the bourgeoisie, the workers always fall into the hands of the possessors, i.e., of those who have any bit of state property (and everything that can be possessed is state property, belongs to the state, and is only a fief of the individual) at their disposal, especially money and land; therefore, into the hands of the capitalists. The worker cannot realize on his labour to the extent of the value that it has for the consumer. ‘Work is badly paid!’ The capitalist has the greatest profit from it. —Only the work of those who enhance the glory and the power of the state, the work of high state servants, is well, and more than well, paid. The state pays well so that its ‘good bourgeois citizens,’ the possessors, can pay badly without danger; through good pay, it secures for itself its servants, from which it forms a protecting power, a ‘police’ (to the police belong soldiers, officials of all kinds, i.e., of justice, education, etc.—in short, the whole ‘machinery of state’) for the ‘good bourgeois citizens,’ and the ‘good bourgeois citizens’ gladly pay high taxes to it in order to pay so much lower wages to their workers.
But the class of workers, because they are unprotected in what they essentially are (since they don't enjoy state protection as workers, but as subjects of the state they have a share in the enjoyment of the police, a so-called legal protection), remains a hostile power against this state, this state of possessors, this ‘bourgeois monarchy.’ Its principle, work, is not recognized according to its value; it is exploited, a spoil of war of the possessors, the enemy.
The workers have the most enormous power in their hands, and if one day they became truly aware of it and used it, then nothing could resist them; they would only have to stop work and look upon the products of work as their own and enjoy them. This is the meaning of the labor unrest that is looming here and there.
The state is founded on the—slavery of labor. If labor becomes free, the state is lost.”
— Max Stirner, The Unique and Its Property
But the class of workers, because they are unprotected in what they essentially are (since they don't enjoy state protection as workers, but as subjects of the state they have a share in the enjoyment of the police, a so-called legal protection), remains a hostile power against this state, this state of possessors, this ‘bourgeois monarchy.’ Its principle, work, is not recognized according to its value; it is exploited, a spoil of war of the possessors, the enemy.
The workers have the most enormous power in their hands, and if one day they became truly aware of it and used it, then nothing could resist them; they would only have to stop work and look upon the products of work as their own and enjoy them. This is the meaning of the labor unrest that is looming here and there.
The state is founded on the—slavery of labor. If labor becomes free, the state is lost.”
— Max Stirner, The Unique and Its Property
“Anarchist Communism maintains that most valuable of all conquests — individual liberty — and moreover extends it and gives it a solid basis — economic liberty — without which political liberty is delusive; it does not ask the individual who has rejected god, the universal tyrant, god the king, and god the parliament, to give unto himself a god more terrible than any of the preceding — god the Community, or to abdicate upon its altar his independence, his will, his tastes, and to renew the vow of asceticism which he formerly made before the crucified god. It says to him, on the contrary, ‘No society is free so long as the individual is not so! ...’”
— Peter Kropotkin, The Place of Anarchism in Socialistic Evolution
— Peter Kropotkin, The Place of Anarchism in Socialistic Evolution