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It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization.


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[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.



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As it turns out, we don't "all" have to pay our debts. Only some of us do.



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There seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.



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Debt is the most effective way to take a relation of violent subordination and make the victims feel that it's their fault.



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Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.



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Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist.



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Revolutionary constituencies always involve a tacit alliance between the least alienated and the most oppressed.



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