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You see, third world countries are rich places; abundant in resources, and many of these countries have the capacity to feed their starving people and the children we always see digging for food in trash on commercials.  But plutocracies, in other words, a government run by the rich, such as this one and traditionally oppressive European states, force the third world into buying over-priced, unnecessary goods while exploiting huge portions of their natural resources…We’re given the idea that if we didn’t have these people to exploit that America wouldn’t be rich enough to let us have these little petty material things in our lives and basic standards of living.  No.  That’s wrong.  It’s the business giants and government officials who make all the real money; we have what ever they kick down to us…As much as racism bleeds America, we need to understand that classism is the real issue.  Many of us are in the same boat, and it’s sinking while these bourgeois mother fuckers ride on a luxury liner. And as long as we keep fighting over kicking people out of the little boat we’re all in, we’re gonna miss an opportunity to gain a better standard of living as a whole.

Immortal Technique
Source: Revolutionary Vol. 1
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Terrorist acts and civil disturbances on the part of dissident political groups, spontaneous urban riots and looting, labor strife, organized crime, corruption among high political officials, illegal use of power, rising rates of violent crime and juvenile delinquency, drug abuse-all are symptoms of serious underlying conflicts and contradictions in commercially organized cultures.

Thomas Bodley
 
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A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

George Bernard Shaw : British playwright & novelist
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
 
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Karl Marx recognized that workers without a choice are workers in chains. But his idea of breaking chains was for us to depose the pharaohs and then build the pyramids for ourselves, as if building pyramids is something we just can't stop doing, we love it so much.

Daniel Quinn : Gaia Child
Daniel Quinn
Source: Beyond Civilization
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We need schools to force kids to learn things they have no use for.

Daniel Quinn : Gaia Explorer
Daniel Quinn
Source: My Ishmael
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They must be the most contented people in the world.  They have no crime, no punishment, no violence, no laws, police, judges, rulers, or bosses... The one characteristic that really makes the Bushmen different than all the other races on Earth, is the fact that they have no sense of ownership at all.

Jamie Uys
Source: The Gods Must Be Crazy [a film released in 1980, written and directed by Jamie Uys]
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I'll go against a tank with a shank for my dreams and that's my f@ckin' word!

Dead Prez
Source: Let's Get Free
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Hasta la victoria siempre!

Che Guevara (1928 - 1967)
 
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