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"Likewise, in the famous 'warning signs of fascism' poster that hangs in the U.S. Holocaust Museum, one of the signs is 'disdain for intellectuals and the arts'. We might condense that down to 'disdain for books'. It’s a short step from not reading books yourself to perceiving them as a threat, precisely because they encourage people to look deeper into issues, challenge conventional ideas, and empathize with people unlike themselves."
#NathanJRobinson, 2024
"[Starbucks] is estimated to have spent some $240 million on union busting. It’s even more appalling given that the new CEO, since starting in September, has been paid approximately $96 million and commutes to work from Southern California to Seattle on a company jet. He’s being paid 10,000 times what the average worker is making: around $30,000 a year for a barista."
#NathanJRobinson, 2025
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/starbucks-is-everything-wrong-with-american-capitalism
Many who condemned his tactics were scolded by our fellow anarchists and militant greenies, and especially primitivists (people like John Zerzan and Derrick Jensen). They claimed our commitment to nonviolence only served the interests of ecocidal power, which could only hear us if we spoke in its own language; violence.
But unlike them, we could see Kaczynski's crypto-fascism for what it was. Despite it being clothed in the sentiments and language of radical environmentalism.
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"It's a live action role playing game in which you, somebody who knows nothing about politics, can be involved in the most important things that are happening in the world, in which there is an apocalyptic crescendo at the end.
#RichardSeymour, 2024
