No Gods No Masters Degrees

“Can students and white-collar workers play roles in an ’ uncompromising revolution for total liberation” ⤴️
“a shocking state of affairs, given the once- respected position of students as the incendiary igniter of global insurrection.” ⤴️
“Organized labour today seems barely able to combat the decline of wages and benefits, and is more terrified of strikes than capable of calling them.” ⤴️
“With people now feeling lucky to have a job, any job, ’ it seems radicals have the impossible task of organizing a nation of phantoms: office workers, single mothers, the depressed and uninspired, the broken-hearted and overworked, all caught up in the system and unable get anywhere no matter what they do.” ⤴️
“Seize your life by any and all means necessary. Put down the book and take action.” ⤴️
“the giant lie that has cast its shadow across human history will begin at long last to dissolve. What lies on the other side of history, no one knows. Yet we can promise you this—we‘ll see you on that other side.” ⤴️
“surrender to a life-in-death of obedience to the system, you will be fully complicit in its bloody end.” ⤴️
“you have the resources to do something beautiful, something that can change the world.” ⤴️
“You might think it is unfair for us to put all this weight on the shoulders of a stranger. After all, you’re clearly not a revolutionary.” ⤴️
“This is the crux of the argument: any job, anywhere, can be approached in a revolutionary manner.” ⤴️
“The less revolutionary potential you think a job has, the more likely that it will actually be radical to subvert it, if only you can find the courage!” ⤴️
“a revolution brought about by cunning alliances between the least likely of us will create exactly the type of situations we need, situations that can break us free from the chains of habit and separation.” ⤴️
“No matter how they are arranged, words alone cannot create revolution.” ⤴️
“neither can action without thought.” ⤴️
“Revolutionary situations arise when people bring their words and dreams into alignment with their actions on an everyday basis.” ⤴️
“students in the US have always been tamer than their comrades worldwide” ⤴️
“we have combed the files of Crimethlnc agents who made the ultimate sacrifice, who went to schools and workplaces with the explicit goal of undermining capitalism. In the course of several years in and out of high schools, universities, offices, and other psychiatric wards, these agents have formulated strategies and tactics for expropriating the white-collar world for revolutionary enrls.” ⤴️
“Education as we know it exists primarily to indoctrinate habits. It is designed to produce obedience and nurture a willingness to complete mindless and meaningless tasks without complaint.” ⤴️
“Since humans naturally prefer to have meaningful lives and do practical, useful things, this innate tendency must be repressed at all costs by authorities at the earliest possible age.” ⤴️
“now that the family, in former times the oppressive institution par excellence, is breaking down, only education can fill the gap it leaves.” ⤴️
“For children in school, every moment is regimented and controlled, every moment is devoted to some task—any task except actually pursuing their own desires.” ⤴️
“Universities, formerly havens from reality for the spawn of the ruling class to network and mate with each other, have now been opened as holding cells for the children of the serfs.” ⤴️
“Within the modern university, the sciences serve as convenient cover for state research into control techniques and methods of mass murder and exploitation.” ⤴️
“the system needs apologists for the terrifying destruction caused fry capitalism, so people are ushered into journalism schools and departments of economics.” ⤴️
“Where is the book composed by a collective of revolutionary postal workers, the book speaking of the lives and dreams of clerks and janitors7 You swear to write that book.” ⤴️
“the university no better than a vast factory of obfuscation and bureaucracy.” ⤴️
“Yet the true test of anarchy is not whether we can push the system into collapse, but what we can do in the here and now, how we take advantage of any opportunity, including collapse, to spread anarchy.” ⤴️
“Let it never be misunderstood that the only path to revolution is for all anarchists to drop out. No, the important question is how we link the efforts and desires of those within the system to those without its assurances and controls. To this end, we need more analysis of how cross-class alliances have helped push forward the revolutionary struggle throughout history.” ⤴️
“Such a study could begin with the impoverished masses who let Russian princes such as Kropotkin and Bakunin throw their lot in with them, and extend up to the mixed-class groups cooking and serving Food Not Bombs today.” ⤴️
“we must also turn any and every situation to the ends of revolution, including white-collar jobs and university lecture halls. In this sense every revolutionary must be a situationist, an artist of situations.” ⤴️
“Whatever their political commitments were, they seemed to regard them essentially as a hobby that would have to be given up sooner or later for the inevitable assimilation into working life; “politics” and “work” formed a dichotomy that could never be bridged or mixed.” ⤴️
“The most my parents had for “community” was a few friends from work unluck enough to be in the same circle of hell as them,” ⤴️
“If there is a job we cannot turn to the ends of anarchy, that attests to our lack of ingenuity, not to the strength of capital.” ⤴️
“We anarchists need both material and human resources to fight the system successfully.” ⤴️
“Revolutionaries need urban social centers, both legally paid for and—if possible—squatted.” ⤴️
“To buy land and to buy buildings requires cash some anarchists can earn, while others with time instead of money can learn to farm and cook, and so on.” ⤴️
“If we take the idea of dual power seriously, we will develop counter-institutions that people can fall back on as the scanty remains of old social safety nets are destroyed by looting capitalists.” ⤴️
“At this meeting, we had the horrible realization that no one knew the layout of the city.” ⤴️
“mass-produce maps of the locations to be blockaded and research details of important centers of global capital.” ⤴️
“It would be more creative for anarchists to invade everyday jobs at all walks of life, for the express purpose of causing trouble.” ⤴️
“Like everyone else, dropouts depend on a whole network of people to keep them alive.” ⤴️
“Dropouts must learn survival skills such as dumpster diving and scamming, but it is the sympathetic cafeteria worker who turns a blind eye to the anarchists sneaking into the school cafeteria, the social worker who gives them food-stamps” ⤴️
“it is these people who create the holes in the system that dropouts need” ⤴️
“But how long can the unemployed anarchist, the prototypical dropout, survive off the kindness of strangers*” ⤴️
“Let us return to the idea of the network of sympathizers and transform that into the network of revolutionaries.” ⤴️
“There is sometimes an unequal power distribution between dropouts and their sympathizers, ‹with the former having no material ways forward and the sympathizers being stuck in some hellish corner of capitalism. In order to overcome this, we must go beyond this dichotomy of “dropouts” and “workers.” Let us inspect the more interesting roles of “sympathizer” and “revolutionary.” The difference between a sympathizer and a revolutionary is mainly a matter of commitment.” ⤴️
“many dropouts are themselves just sympathizers. Sure, they may be contributing to revolution by not working, but the entirety of their activity is made up of just trying to survive.” ⤴️
“if a dropout can indeed be a revolutionary, then an employed person can be more than a sympathizer too.” ⤴️
“One of the most obvious tasks of the working revolutionary is simple: seize resources. Instead of feeling guilty about privileges, the working revolutionary does anything and everything to abuse those privileges” ⤴️
“Revolutionaries need resources, need to eat, sleep, and have clothing. For people of color, unemployed people, people with families they can barely support, people brought up ìn gens.rations of poverty, to be a full-time revolutionary without income is impossible.” ⤴️
“Yet if some of their friends and allies can work, can find jobs, they can make this easter. If the employed revolutionary is willing to live frugally, she can provide for rlnzens of liei comrades” ⤴️
“The occupational hazard of employed revolutionaries is probably more dangerous—tc begin to believe in their jobs and the System in which they play a part, or at least accept these as r nchangeable elements of reality.” ⤴️
“if you want to support revolutionary efforts to help people become self sufficient in the wake of a disaster such as the one in New Orleans, why not just make it a school project7 You can band together with like-minded students and form an organization to seize control of even more funding, with which to set up conferences for local anticapitalists and invite revolutionaries to speak at your school” ⤴️
“the revolutionary who works for the primary purpose of seizing resources should aim for the job with the most resources that requires the least amount of commitment.” ⤴️