• cerement@slrpnk.net
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    6 days ago

    We have always lived in slums and holes in the wall. We will know how to accommodate ourselves for a time. For, you must not forget, we can also build. It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And better ones! We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie may blast and burn its own world before it finally leaves the stage of history. We are not afraid of ruins. We who ploughed the prairies and built the cities can build again, only better next time. We carry a new world, here in our hearts. The world is growing this minute.

    —Buenaventura Durruti, interview with Pierre van Paassen (1936-07-24)

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      6 days ago

      Well said. Maybe there’s a chance we can pull out of this nosedive.

      The opening in the window for that is now barely wide enough to slip a sheet of paper into.

      But hey, crowbars have done more, with less. Let’s see what happens.

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        5 days ago

        Maybe there’s a chance we can pull out of this nosedive.

        Though please don’t send the descendants back to Europe and Africa.

        The opening in the window for that is now barely wide enough to slip a sheet of paper into.

        Yep, like James Corbett (of The Corbett Report fame) said recently, some are sad the door’s only a crack open, and he’s hopping excited, YES, THE DOOR IS A CRACK OPEN! It having never been so in the decades he’s been doing this.

        Now is the time.

        Crowbar o’clock! :D