Indian Libertarian Socialist Federation
Libertarianism is a set of socialist philosophies. It includes various Anarchist & Libertarian Marxist tendencies.
“I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of work, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work.”\n— Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness (1932)
"My people see land ownership as being totally different to the English. We lived on the land as people of the land. To us it was a natural way of being, being part of all that there is. \nYou didn\'t see anything as different from you. If you\'re alive, you connect to everything else that\'s alive. You can never feel lonely in that situation. All around you are family members from the ground up; the trees around you, the clouds, birds flying by, the animals and reptiles. \nThat\'s the beauty of oneness, it doesn\'t push anyone out, but it brings everybody in. It stretches from horizon to horizon where the clouds are your ceiling at daytime and the stars at night. \nBut that \'oneness\' has been shrunk down to the \'mineness\' of this little box, \'my house\', \'my car\'. So small in comparison. You\'re part of the oneness and you can feel that. You feel good when you\'re in that space."\n— "Uncle" Bob Randall, Aboriginal Australian elder
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“Just observe the nation that is defended by devoted patriots. The patriots fall in bloody battle or in the fight with hunger and want; what does the nation care for that? By the manure of their corpses the nation comes to ‘its bloom’! The individuals have died ‘for the great cause of the nation’, and the nation sends some words of thanks after them and — has the profit of it. I call that a paying kind of egoism.”\n— Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own
“All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies are unjust to the many, and ochlocracies are unjust to the few. High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. It has been found out. I must say that it was high time, for all authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and degrades those over whom it is exercised. ....[T]here is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.”\n— Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
Yeah, for real… and that symbol is the Communist hammer and sickle symbol.\nSci-Hub, Library Genesis (LibGen), Z-Library etc are all really socialist projects that intend to make all human knowledge – books and research papers etc – freely available to everyone. It\'s PIRACY. And piracy is a radical act 🔥🏴. That\'s why it\'s illegal, that\'s why the governments all over the world are trying to shut down these projects…. because capitalism is always opposed to freedom and free knowledge. Knowledge should be free!… but that\'s against the interests of capitalists, who want to commodify and sell knowledge. But free knowledge is in the interest of everyone; it is also a prerequisite for the advancement of science.
"Poverty, we have said elsewhere, was the primary cause of wealth. It was poverty that created the first capitalist; because, before accumulating \'surplus value,\' of which we hear so much, men had to be sufficiently destitute to consent to sell their labour, so as not to die of hunger. It was poverty that made capitalists."\n— Peter Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread, 1892
“Socialism, Communism, or whatever one chooses to call it, by converting private property into public wealth, and substituting co-operation for competition, will restore society to its proper condition of a thoroughly healthy organism, and insure the material wellbeing of each member of the community. It will, in fact, give Life its proper basis and its proper environment. But for the full development of Life to its highest mode of perfection, something more is needed. What is needed is Individualism.”\n— Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
“Anarchists, including this writer, have used the word State, and still do, to mean the sum total of the political, legislative, judiciary, military and financial institutions through which the management of their own affairs, the control over their personal behaviour, the responsibility for their personal safety, are taken away from the people and entrusted to others who, by usurpation or delegation, are vested with the powers to make the laws for everything and everybody, and to oblige the people to observe them, if need be, by the use of collective force.”\n— Errico Malatesta, Anarchy
“In the West...we have no attempt at economic justice, so that a large proportion of the total produce goes to a small minority of the population, many of whom do no work at all. Owing to the absence of any central control over production, we produce hosts of things that are not wanted. We keep a large percentage of the working population idle, because we can dispense with their labour by making the others overwork. When all these methods prove inadequate, we have a war: we cause a number of people to manufacture high explosives, and a number of others to explode them, as if we were children who had just discovered fireworks. By a combination of all these devices we manage, though with difficulty, to keep alive the notion that a great deal of severe manual work must be the lot of the average man.”\n— BERTRAND RUSSELL, In Praise of Idleness
“Today’s winners are more unsympathetic than the old ones, because the maximum element of victory for them is no longer the religious illusion that animated the errant knights and the crusades, nor the sparkling chivalrous prejudice of the nobility, but only something stupid and gross with no shadow of an ideal appearance: money. The money that defiles everything, that imposes itself on everyone, makes smart the idiot who owns it, strong the most cowardly, stifles the inspirations by imposing itself and imposing mediocrity, even where it would have less say in the matter, in art, in literature.”\n— Luigi Fabbri
friendship, love and community are effective revolutionary tools. and so are crossbows.
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A great many advanced thinkers of the past and current century have concluded that the idea of work is in itself no good, that we have to reduce it as much as possible (they\'ve also said that it\'s possible with the existing technology – even with the technology of the last century itself – to reduce working-hours drastically).\nTo name only few well-known thinkers who maintained these ideas:\nOscar Wilde, Bertrand Russell, Friedrich Nietzsche, Richard Buckminster Fuller, John Maynard Keynes, etc.\nThis philosophy is called anti-work philosophy. It DOES NOT hold that everyone should be lazy, sitting around doing nothing, etc. On the contrary, it says that compulsory labor should be reduced for everyone so that we can spend that time in intellectual activities or recreations. So that we can engage in art, science, entertainment (for recreation), sports, etc. This, as we said before, is the requisite for the overall well-being, prosperity and progress of all humanity... and for us to reach next levels of civilization!\nWe will share in the future some of the great writings or quotes of such thinkers.
“World Game finds that 60 percent of all the jobs in the U.S.A. are not producing any real wealth—i.e., real life support. They are in fear-underwriting industries or are checking-on-other-checkers, etc.”\n“You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.”\n“I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.”\n — BUCKMINSTER FULLER
“There is no scarcity. Forty-one million people are dying of starvation each day around the world and there is plenty of food for all of them. We lack a marketing system. All we have is this game of money, how to acquire things. And that’s the problem. It isn’t working.”\n— Buckminster Fuller\nFuller said this about half a century ago. Even then it was an underestimated figure, and now even more. About a billion people are starving. However, what he said is still true.\nThere\'s plenty for everyone. We have enough food to feed 11 billion people, whereas the world population is only 7.5 billion. But still, 1 billion people are starving…\nCapitalism!
Do you have any idea how much wealth is owned by Elon Musk, the wealthiest guy on Earth right now?\nWe just made a calculation to give an idea:\nYou know that earning 100k rupees (1 lakh rupees) is a lot in India... those who earn that much usually wouldn\'t spend it all.\nNow, the standard of living in USA is approximately thrice that in India; but let\'s suppose that it\'s 10 times instead.\nNow suppose that Musk spends 10 times of that regularly.\nSo he\'d spend 10×10×100k = 10 million rupees = 135k USD per month.\nAt this rate, he\'d spend around 1.62 million dollars per year .\nNow, how long would it take for him to spend all his current wealth, if he were to spend at this rate?\n(His net worth is over 300 billion dollars right now!)\nIt would take him more than 187,000 years!\nAround 1.87 lakh years!\nImagine that!!\n(Please note that spending 1.62 million dollars per year is an extremely abnormally high spending. But even with such a spending, it would take almost 2 lakh years. For comparison, the median annual personal income in USA is just around 36k dollars!)\nOur species (Homo sapiens) itself has been on Earth only for around 1.8–2 lakh years.\nThink about it! Take a few moments (probably few hours) and think about it DEEPLY!
“Government power will never let workers tread the road to freedom; it is the instrument of the lazy who want to dominate others, and it does not matter if the power is in the hand of the bourgeois, the socialists or the Bolsheviks, it is degrading. \nThere is no government without teeth, teeth to tear any man who longs for a free and just life.”\n— Nestor Makhno, The Anarchist Revolution
“The chief advantage that would result from the establishment of Socialism is, undoubtedly, the fact that Socialism would relieve us from that sordid necessity of living for others which, in the present condition of things, presses so hardly upon almost everybody. In fact, scarcely any one at all escapes.”\n— Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
“Fuck cops, bosses, rapists, racists, Presidents, the money economy, Border Patrol, prisons, cat callers, haters. Go feminists, anarchists, indigenous communities, gift economies, queers bashing back, apolitical violent hoodlums, border crossers, friends, and totally making out for like hours.”\n— Pat The Bunny
"It follows that under communism there remains for a time not only bourgeois law but even the bourgeois state, without the bourgeoisie!"\n— Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution (1917)
“The human being is something only as my quality (property) like masculinity or femininity. The ancients found the ideal in one\'s being male in the full sense; their virtue is virtus and aretē, i.e., manliness. What is one supposed to think of a woman who only wanted to be a complete ‘woman’? That is not given to all of them, and some would set themselves an unattainable goal in this. She is, however, female in any case, by nature; femininity is her quality, and she doesn\'t need ‘true femininity’. I am human, just like the earth is a planet. As ridiculous as it would be to set the earth the task of being a ‘correct star’, it is just as ridiculous to burden me with the calling to be a ‘correct human being’.”\n— Max Stirner, The Unique and Its Property
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Anti-Capitalism in Joker (2019):\nhttps://www.leftvoice.org/joker-the-despair-of-capitalism-and-the-hope-of-riots/\n“Every society has the criminals it deserves.”\n— Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays
Rabindranath Tagore, Nationalism
I Hate New Year’s Day (by Antonio Gramsci)\n(Excerpt)\n“Every morning, when I wake again under the pall of the sky, I feel that for me it is New Year’s Day.\n“That’s why I hate these New Year’s that fall like fixed maturities, which turn life and human spirit into a commercial concern with its neat final balance, its outstanding amounts, its budget for the new management. They make us lose the continuity of life and spirit. You end up seriously thinking that between one year and the next there is a break, that a new history is beginning; you make resolutions, and you regret your irresolution, and so on, and so forth. This is generally what’s wrong with dates.\n[...]\n“That’s why I hate New Year’s. I want every morning to be a new year’s for me. Every day I want to reckon with myself, and every day I want to renew myself. No day set aside for rest. I choose my pauses myself, when I feel drunk with the intensity of life and I want to plunge into animality to draw from it new vigor.\n“No spiritual time-serving. I would like every hour of my life to be new, though connected to the ones that have passed. No day of celebration with its mandatory collective rhythms, to share with all the strangers I don’t care about. Because our grandfathers’ grandfathers, and so on, celebrated, we too should feel the urge to celebrate. That is nauseating.\n“I await socialism for this reason too. Because it will hurl into the trash all of these dates which have no resonance in our spirit and, if it creates others, they will at least be our own, and not the ones we have to accept without reservations from our silly ancestors.”\n— ANTONIO GRAMSCI
"Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion."\n— Robert Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism
What About The Rapists?\n"PIC abolitionists don’t demand police and prison abolition in spite of \'the rapists.\' We demand abolition because the current system produces and reinforces sexual violence while using survivors to justify its existence. \nFear of \'the rapists\' is weaponized as a justification for maintaining and reinforcing a system that creates significant violence for many people while focusing very little time on addressing sexual violence for those who are harmed. When something can\'t be fixed, the question is what can we build instead?"\n– Mariame Kaba and Eva Nagao\nhttps://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/what-about-the-rapists
Sharing the World\n(Part 1)\nWe (you and me) share a world, we live together in it affecting each other\'s lives at different levels – always, although not always conscious of the fact. We are born here without prior notice but we still choose to continue, mostly because – why not...?\nBut despite life\'s tremendous beauty and appeal, there is one truth that is common to all of us: that life is harsh; it is easier for some much more than for others – but it is harsh to all of us. As much as we want to enjoy reality, we also want to escape from it time to time. While we sleep, we escape from it. People use psychoactive substances – sometimes even hard drugs – to escape from it... regulated usage works well for that end but unregulated usage leaves people helpless, makes them empty slaves and then controls them. People lose their individuality, their sense of self and ultimately their reality. While under its effect, they only care about one thing or to be more precise they CAN only care about thing and that is getting more of it, they forget that there are other people that exist aside from them, people who are similar to them and share the same world...\nBut there are other ways as well to escape reality that we have created for ourselves. For better or for worse, people have built civilizations around those escapes, placing them at the very core of their experience.. nationalism, race, religion, caste etc., to name a few. They help us escape life in the same way weed helps stoners, we start seeing another world, a world quite similar to ours yet very different; but the trick to escaping is to get out of it at will, if you never escape the escape you escape life, which is fine at an individual level but when done collectively we inevitably start affecting others, because we (you and me) share the same world...
“I preferred sewing to bossing little children.”\n– Mother Jones, co-founder of the IWW\n5 Things to know about Mother Jones
"We do not find this Marxist notion of what anarchy is acceptable, for we do not believe that the state will naturally or inevitably die away automatically as a result of the abolition of classes. The state is more than an outcome of class divisions; it is, at one and the same time, the creator of privilege, thereby bringing about new class divisions. Marx was in error in thinking that once classes had been abolished the state would die a natural death, as if through lack of nourishment. \nThe state will not die away unless it is deliberately destroyed, just as capitalism will not cease to exist unless it is put to death through expropriation. Should a state be left standing, it will create a new ruling class about itself, that is, if it chooses not to make its peace with the old one. In short, class divisions will persist and classes will never be finally abolished as long as the state remains."\n— Luigi Fabbri, Anarchy and "Scientific" Communism, 1922
"In the name of feminism, ‘Nature’ shall no longer be a refuge of injustice, or a basis for any political justification whatsoever! \nIf nature is unjust, change nature!"\n— Laboria Cuboniks in the manifesto Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation
“Patents are a powerful way of controlling know-how, but the know-how itself is what they care about. They monopolize know-how by taking on all the educated people, all the scientists and technologists.\n“But the word ownership has no meaning whatsoever. You can’t own information. There’s nothing you can own. You can seize the land if you want to, and say, “Is there anybody says this isn’t mine?” That doesn’t mean that it belongs to you. There’s no deed from God to anything. One of the things that’s going to come out in the laundry in the next decade is that there’s no such thing as ownership. There are custodianships, natural custodianships such as the father or mother of their child. But no ownership.”\n— BUCKMINSTER FULLER
“Experience demonstrates that there may be a wages of slavery only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other.”\n— Frederick Douglass,\nThree Addresses on the Relations Subsisting Between the White and Colored People of the United States (1886)\n(Douglass towards the end of his life. He realized that wage slavery was almost as bad as chattel slavery.)
If 10 people work for 8 hours to do X amount of work, how many hours do 20 people have to work to do the same amount of work?\n4 hours.\nIn the India of present, only about 37% of the working age population are employed; and the average work-week is about 50 hours.\nSo if at least 70% of the working age population were employed, how long would the work-week be if the work remains the same?\nAbout 26 hours. (That means a 6-day work-week with each work-day being 4 hours; or a 5-day work-week with each work-day being about 5 hours).\nIf more than 70% of the working-age population were employed, clearly the working hours would further reduce.\nAnd, further, if as much human labor were automated as possible, then clearly the working hours would be even less.\nAnd if all sorts of unnecessary jobs ("bullshit jobs") were eliminated, and if production and services were limited only to what is needed by society, then there would be an even further reduction in working hours.\nWhile it\'s presumptuous to say that we can predict the exact amount of working hours of this future post-capitalist society, we can nevertheless see that it\'s quite possible to have a great amount of leisure and only short working hours.\nAnd only this sort of society, we believe, can lead to the next stage of civilization in terms of progress: science and art will flourish like never before, as the majority of population will get a chance to involve themselves in these noble pursuits instead of working all their life under miserable conditions and for meagre wages.\nUnder capitalism, production is done for the sake of production and so there\'s an extreme level of unnecessary expenditure and exploitation of resources: of natural resources as well as human labor. This also leads to collective misery, as under capitalism a sizable portion of the society is kept in miserable conditions (poverty, hunger) despite there being abundance of food and other needs. Moreover, we are alienated due to lack of autonomy in the workplace. And some people are overworked while others are deliberately kept in unemployment.\nAnd that production for the sake of production is extremely detrimental to the environment as well, it is in fact driving the current climate change (we are approaching a \'climate catastrophe!’.. no no, it has already started!). We need to dismantle capitalism and reorganize our society in a sustainable way if we are to have any hopes of surviving for a long time. Capitalism is extremely unsustainable and it\'s destroying the planet!
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Bolshevism, embodying the ideal of a centralising state, has shown itself as the deadly enemy of the free spirit of revolutionary toilers. Resorting to unprecedented measures, it has sabotaged the development of revolution and besmirched the honor of it\'s finest aspect. Successfully disguised, it concealed it\'s real face from the gaze of the toilers, passing itself off as the champion of their interests"\n- Nestor Ivanovic Makhno,
⚠️ CONTENT WARNING ⚠️\nOn February 23 1991, Indian Security Forces the twin villages of Kunan Poshpora, located in Kashmir’s Kupwara district, to conduct a search operation after being fired on by militants. Once inside the village, the male residents were taken away from their homes, while the forces searched the village. It is alleged that the men from the security forces raped the women of the village. It is alleged that more than 100 women were raped by the search party, including a pregnant woman who gave birth to a baby with a fractured arm, and a deaf and dumb girl.\nToday, as we mark thirty years since the mass rape, India Against Fascism will post a series of videos, books and articles about the incident that is forever imbibed in the memory of Kashmiris, and serves as a gruesome reminder of human rights violations by the Indian Security Forces in the state.
“The recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing was to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be. The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is. Private property has crushed true Individualism, and set up an Individualism that is false. ...With the abolition of private property, then, we shall have true, beautiful, healthy Individualism. Nobody will waste his life in accumulating things, and the symbols for things. One will live. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”\n— Oscar Wilde
Co-Operation is the law of humans - Breadman Kropotkin ♥️🏴
“For the sake of simplicity, in the discussion that follows I shall call “workers” all those who do not share in the ownership of the means of production—although this does not quite correspond to the customary use of the term. The owner of the means of production is in a position to purchase the labor power of the worker. By using the means of production, the worker produces new goods which become the property of the capitalist. The essential point about this process is the relation between what the worker produces and what he is paid, both measured in terms of real value. \nInsofar as the labor contract is “free,” what the worker receives is determined not by the real value of the goods he produces, but by his minimum needs and by the capitalists\' requirements for labor power in relation to the number of workers competing for jobs. It is important to understand that even in theory the payment of the worker is not determined by the value of his product.”\n— Albert Einstein, Why Socialism?
This documentary about Modi and the BJP was quickly removed from YouTube the day it was posted. It\'s available on the BBC\'s website for UK users and those outside the region may be able to access it with a VPN.\nhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0dk9z6x
When you criticize Capitalism, many liberals (defenders of capitalism) argue that you shouldn\'t even talk about capitalism unless you\'re an economist.\nLet us see what Albert Einstein had to say about this kind of argument:
“Sympathy with pain there will, of course, always be. It is one of the first instincts of man. The animals which are individual, the higher animals that is to say, share it with us. But it must he remembered that while sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of joy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain. It may make man better able to endure evil, but the evil remains. Sympathy with consumption does not cure consumption; that is what Science does. And when Socialism has solved the problem of poverty, and Science solved the problem of disease, the area of the sentimentalists will be lessened, and the sympathy of man will be large, healthy, and spontaneous. Man will have joy in the contemplation of the joyous lives of others.”\n— Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
and "enjoy" that ~4 hrs of "free time" (just 16% of my whole day), by which time I\'m really already too tired & exhausted to do anything.