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    “Anarchism is not only a stateless society but also a harmonized society that exposes man to the stimuli provided by both agrarian and urban life, to physical activity and mental activity, to unrepressed sensuality and self-directed spirituality, to communal solidarity and individual development, to regional uniqueness and worldwide brotherhood, to spontaneity and self-discipline, to the elimination of toil and the promotion of craftsmanship.”

    —Murray Bookchin, Ecology and Revolutionary Thought
    (1965)

  • 2025-03-30T08:58:47.000Z

    “Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society. If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life will be limited, dull, and mechanical. If the individual is a unit on his own, with space and potentiality for separate action, then he may be more subject to accident or chance, but at least he can expand and express himself. He can develop—develop in the only real meaning of the world—develop in consciousness of strength, vitality, and joy.” Herbert Read, The Philosophy of Anarchism

  • 2025-03-29T19:57:19.000Z

    The truth is that man has produced imbalances not only in nature but more fundamentally in his relations with his fellow man — in the very structure of his society.
    To state this thought more precisely: the imbalances man has produced in the natural world are caused by the imbalances he has produced in the social world.

  • 2025-03-29T19:42:51.000Z

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  • 2025-03-29T19:11:27.000Z

    They say all beings have the Buddha nature

    and that means you folks right here

    these persimmons too, these chestnuts we’ll share

    Budding, blooming, becoming

    Act as if all beings as your relatives, parents, children

    because they are

    get together and take back the land you work

    what is unborn cannot be owned

    but it can be shared

    this dharma is without high nor low, rich nor poor, masters nor slaves.

    inherited will, embodied, the incessant heartbeat:

    freedom, freedom

    ripening, struggling, being

    they put you in a noose for your love, your doubt and your rage

    for teaching the children, comforting the oppressed and suffering

    and refusing to bow

    to the powers of this world

    falling, dissolving, decomposing

    and so you drop your body once again plunged into the stream

    tossed and tumbling

    scattered and scarred

    open, weary

    smiling

    another foolish dharma seed

    something which Law

    cannot name, cannot claim and cannot hang

    Some thing which is No thing at all

    going, gone, gone

    what we always were

    are

    will be

    boundless blue sky

    in other words: love

    &

    because this love is selfless

    because this love is change

    because this love is pain

    because this love is empty

    it is foolish, it is free,

    gone beyond

    thus:

    gone beyond beyond

    another world is possible

    because it is possible

    It

    will

    be

    …the fruit, the seed,

    and the fool

    always returning to

    THIS

    Uchiyama Gudō: Buddhist Anarchist Martyr

  • 2025-03-29T19:08:52.000Z

    Let’s call the Marxist socioeconomic system that is grounded in Buddhist metaphysics Compassionate Marxism. The focus of Compassionate Marxism has to be on ahimsā – nonviolence. Only then can Marxism be immune to totalitarian and authoritarian abuse, and hence no longer prone to repeat its history. Whether Marx himself taught that revolution is necessarily violent, or if there is a possibility of a peaceful transformation, is a vexed question. During the 1844-49 period, Marx held that violent revolution is indeed necessary, given the stringent structure of the bourgeois system. But if it is the economic circumstances that necessitate a turn towards something communist, and not totalitarian, then nonviolent revolution might be possible given the right political interventions.

    https://aeon.co/essays/how-marxism-and-buddhism-complement-each-other

  • 2025-03-29T10:03:05.000Z

    Intelligent activity is distinguished from aimless activity by the fact that it involves selection of means—analysis—out of the variety of conditions that are present, and their arrangement-—synthesis—to reach an intended aim or purpose.

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