Wise words from Anarchists of yesteryear

Feighnt "the definition of "nobody important""
Posts: 912 Joined: 20-07-06 Location: canada, nanaimo
Submitted by Feighnt on 15 May, 2008 - 02:20.
Tierra Y Libertad, 1931 wrote:
to try to lynch defenseless men is an act of cowardice only conceivable in rogues, asexuals, and eunuchs.

Weeler "The wind that shakes Nathan Barley"
Posts: 5677 Joined: 25-09-05 Location: Dublin
15 May, 2008 - 09:50
Tierra Y Libertad, 1936 wrote:
Lets go into government, I mean, hey, what's the worst that could happen?[/quote

Hmm

Black Badger
Posts: 98 Joined: 21-03-07 Location: Oakland, California
15 May, 2008 - 14:32

"The entry of the CNT into the central government represents one of the most momentous events in this country's political history. As a matter of principle and conviction, the CNT has at all times been anti-statist and hostile to all forms of government. Circumstances beyond our control have, however, transformed the nature of the government and the Spanish state. At present, the government has ceased to be an oppressive anti-working class force, just as the state no longer preserves class divisions in society. And with the CNT's entry into them, both will oppress the people even less..."
Solidaridad Obrera (Barcelona) 4 November 1936

Weeler "The wind that shakes Nathan Barley"
Posts: 5677 Joined: 25-09-05 Location: Dublin
15 May, 2008 - 14:41
Black Badger wrote:
At present, the government has ceased to be an oppressive anti-working class force, just as the state no longer preserves class divisions in society.

FUCK. Source? I've never seen that.

Black Badger
Posts: 98 Joined: 21-03-07 Location: Oakland, California
16 May, 2008 - 01:50

Solidaridad Obrera, 4 Nov. '36, cited in Peirats' CNT in the Spanish Revolution (Vol 1), p. 180.

Matt
Posts: 31 Joined: 01-04-08 Location: Aberdeen
16 May, 2008 - 12:38

I'm actually trying to find a quote I remember reading somewhere, it was to do with not being interested in the size of Einstein's brain so much as all the geniuses who toiled in the fields there whole life or something... Does anyone know the quote and who said it?