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“Being poor is actually a full-time job and being broke is like a full-time job with the amount of paperwork and the time going from office to office proving what you have done. . With Universal Basic Income all that would be eliminated with the time liberated to do something socially productive.” — David Graeber
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Housing, Healthcare, Education etc....This should not be controversial.

Don't confuse my hatred of the hyperwealthy for jealousy over what they have. I don't want a 6-figure sports car, or a 40-room mansion, or a gold leaf truffle steak dinner. . I want redistribution of wealth that allows for infrastructural support of all citizens' basic survival needs.
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"Anarchism is just the way people act when they are free to do as they choose, and when they deal with others who are equally free, and therefore aware of the responsibility to others that entails. This leads to another crucial point: that while people can be reasonable and considerate when they are dealing with equals, human nature is such that they cannot be trusted to do so when given power over others. Give someone such power, they will almost invariably abuse it in some way or another." . - David Graeber
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Most work is caring for other people.

“I would propose that we just rip up the discipline of economics as it exists and start over. This is my proposal in this regard: I think we should take the ideas of production and consumption, throw them away, and substitute for them the idea of care and freedom. As feminists point out, even if you are making a bridge, you are making a bridge because you care that people can get across the river. You make a car because you care that people can get around. So even production is just one subordinate type of care as what we do as human beings is take care of each other.” — David Graeber
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“The assumption that
what currently exists
must necessarily exist
is the acid that corrodes
all visionary thinking.”

- Murray Bookchin

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If you are interested in Decolonization and African History, we have a stream about to start on the topics!

https://www.youtube.com/live/RvoB6mgqck0

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The actor, Edward Norton, calls for a General Strike!

"What they are doing in Minnesota with the strike needs to expand. We should be talking about a national General and Economic Strike."

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"Direct action means insisting on your right to act as if you’re already free. If someone is doing something bad, you try to stop them, in the way you’d hope anyone would act in a free and just society. If a bunch of cops intervene, you do not treat them like authorities, you act as if they were a bunch of guys in blue costumes with weapons — that is, basically, a violent street gang." . - David Graeber
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"Hopelessness isn’t natural. It needs to be produced.

If we really want to understand this situation, we have to begin by understanding that for decades we have seen the construction of a vast bureaucratic apparatus for the creation and maintenance of hopelessness, a kind of giant machine that is designed, first and foremost, to destroy any sense of possible alternative futures."

- David Graeber

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If you are thinking about a new book to read for 2026, maybe Bullshit Job by David Graeber is a good option.

"Most of us like to talk about freedom in the abstract, even claim that it's the most important thing for anyone to fight or die for, but we don't think a lot about what being free or practicing freedom might actually mean. The main point of this book (Bullshit Jobs) was not to propose concrete policy prescriptions, but to start us thinking and arguing about what a genuine free society might actually be like."