liberashen

[liberashen]

“After such a long period, the term “occupation” becomes somewhat redundant and irrelevant. Two generations of Palestinians have already lived under this regime. Although they themselves will still call it occupation, what they are living through is rooted in something else much harder to defeat or change—colonization.”

— Ilan Pappé

#settler colonialism #gaza #Palestine #free Palestine #liberation #quote #anti imperialism #ilan pappé

[liberashen]

“The two-states solution is like a corpse taken out in the morgue every now and then, dressed up nicely, and presented as a living thing. When it has been proven once more that there is no life left in it, it is returned to the morgue.”

— Ilan Pappé

#free palestine #free gaza #liberation #quote #anti imperialism #settler colonialism

[liberashen]

“What will it take to make peace between Israelis and Palestinians? Some say we must forget the past. I think we have to start by remembering it. My first memory of Palestine is from a supermarket in London. Before I was old enough to go to school, I remember regularly accompanying my mother to the Safeway in Ealing Broadway. One day we were buying oranges and I pointed at some big, beautiful-looking ones. “No, not those,” my mother said, “they are from Jaffa, they are our oranges.” This made no sense to my five-year-old mind. If they were our oranges, why couldn’t we have them? My mother explained to me that the citrus groves of Jaffa belonged to Palestinians, to people like us, until the Israelis took them over.”

— Ali Abunimah

#ali abunimah #free palestine #palestine #israeli occupation #israeli apartheid #israel #liberation #quote

[liberashen]

‟From the very beginning the idea of an Israeli state was sold to the Western powers as a wedge to keep the Arabs divided.”

— Leila Khaled

#leila khaled #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #palestine #zionism #anti zionism #israel #israeli apartheid #liberation #quote

[liberashen]

‟I, as a dreamer, living on the bare subsistence provided by a UN blue ration card, in a crowded room, on a side street in Sour, stand as a witness to Zionist inhumanity. I charge the world for its acquiescence in my destruction.”

— Leila Khaled

#leila khaled #free palestine #anti zionism #zionism #palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #liberation #quote

[liberashen]

‟All the modes of oppression—psychological, political, and economic—and the kinds of alienation they generate serve to maintain a vast system of privilege—privilege of race, of sex, and of class. Every mode of oppression within the system has its own part to play, but each serves to support and to maintain the others... Because of the interlocking character of the modes of oppression, I think it highly unlikely that any form of oppression will disappear entirely until the system of oppression as a whole is overthrown.”

— Sandra Lee Bartky

#sandra lee bartky #oppression #liberation #quote #socialism #capitalism #feminism #radical feminism

[liberashen]

‟I realized at the National Black Feminist Organization conference that it had been much too long since I sat in a room full of black women and, unafraid of being made to feel peculiar, spoke about things that matter to me. We sat together and talked and knew no one would think, or say, “Your thoughts are dangerous to black unity and a threat to black men.” Instead, all the women understood that we gathered together to assure understanding among black women, and that understanding among women is not a threat to anyone who intends to treat women fairly.”

— Alice Walker

#alice walker #quote #liberation #feminism #womanism #patriarchy #black feminism

[liberashen]

‟What distinguishes human 'species being' from the being of other species is our distinctive laboring activity: This Marx regards as the free, self-aware, and creative transformation of nature in accord with human needs. But under capitalism, work is degraded. Most workers lack any opportunity for artistic or intellectual development; far from allowing workers to affirm or to augment their essential human powers, work under capitalism is forced labor to which the worker goes each day like a prisoner condemned, a mere drudgery which 'mortifies the body and ruins the mind.' ”

— Sandra Lee Bartky

#sandra lee bartky #anti capitalism #capitalism #socialism #marxism #liberation #quote #communism

[liberashen]

“Women workers who are not feminists know that they receive unequal pay for equal work, but they may think that the arrangement is just; the feminist sees this situation as an instance of exploitation and an occasion for struggle. Feminists are no more aware of different things than other people; they are aware of the same things differently.”

— Sandra Lee Bartky

#sandra lee bartky #socialism #anti capitalism #marxism #marxist feminism #feminism #quote #liberation

[liberashen]

“All the signs of the times show us that society is objectively ripe, nay even over-ripe for the overthrow of capitalism. But we have had no proof that the will of the proletariat, the will of the class destined to be the grave-digger of the capitalist order is ripe in the historical sense of the word. But Comrades, this historic situation is like an alpine landscape in which the gigantic masses of snow repose on the mountain tops for centuries, seemingly impervious to sun, rain or storm. But despite appearances they are undermined, they have grown soft and are ‘ripe’ to be hurled down. Perhaps the beating of a little bird’s wings will be enough to move this avalanche which will bury the valleys under its weight. We do not know how soon we, men and women, will be faced with the world revolution. Therefore, we must not lose a single hour, nay, let a single minute pass without working for the world revolution. World revolution does not only mean world destruction and the destruction of capitalism. It also means world construction and the creation of Communism. Let us get our inspiration from the real meaning of the word: let us be ready, and let us make the masses ready, in order that they might become the world creators of Communism.”

— Clara Zetkin

#clara zetkin #capitalism #anti capitalism #communism #socialism #marxism #revolution #late stage capitalism #liberation #quote

[liberashen]

“Look at Germany, where capitalism, which is dying, and feels itself threatened, expects salvation from fascism.... Women with occupations! Remember that fascism deprives you of the rights acquired in fierce struggle, and denies you independence and work. Remember that the "Third Empire" wishes to degrade you to the position of "serving-maid of the man" and a child-bearing machine. Do not forget the brave women fighters whom fascism has tortured to death, whom it has placed behind prison walls. Scholars, artists, teachers, writers, members of the free professions! Do not forget the bonfires on which fascism burns the cultural products you have created and carefully preserved, the destruction of which deprives humanity of a source of spiritual development. Our material aid for the victims of the swastika terror is a sacrifice for that internationality for which the enlightened minds of all peoples have striven.”

— Clara Zetkin

#clara zetkin #fascism #anti fascism #anti imperialism #anti sexism #liberation #quote #socialism #marxism #capitalism

[liberashen]

‟Our country produces enough to feed us all. We can even produce more than we need. Unfortunately, for lack of organization, we still need to beg for food aid. This type of assistance is counterproductive and has kept us thinking that we can only be beggars who need aid. We must put aside this type of aid and succeed in producing more. We must produce more, because the one who feeds you usually imposes his will upon you.”

— Thomas Sankara

#thomas sankara #anti capitalism #marxism leninism #socialism #communism #marxism #revolution #liberation #quote

[liberashen]

“It is not labor, but exploited and forced labor, that is galling to the human being.”

— Evelyn Reed

#evelyn reed #liberation #quote #anti capitalism #marxism leninism #marxism #socialism #communism

[liberashen]

“Racial solidarity, particularly the solidarity of whiteness, has historically always been used to obscure class, to make the white poor see their interests as one with the world of white privilege.”

— bell hooks

#bell hooks #class matters #liberation #quote #anti capitalism #capitalism

[liberashen]

“Now, political education means opening their minds, awakening them, and allowing the birth of their intelligence; as Cesaire said, it is ‘to invent souls’. To educate the masses politically does not mean, cannot mean, making a political speech. What it means is to try, relentlessly and passionately, to teach the masses that everything depends on them; that if we stagnate it is their responsibility, and that if we go forward it is due to them too, that there is no such thing as a demiurge, that there is no famous man who will take the responsibility for everything, but that the demiurge is the people themselves and the magic hands are finally only the hands of the people.”

— Frantz Fanon

#frantz fanon #socialism #liberation #quote #capitalism #marxism leninism #communism #marxism #revolution #wretched of the earth

[liberashen]

“On the one hand, there is the tendency of the bourgeoisie and the opportunists to convert a handful of very rich and privileged nations into “eternal” parasites on the body of the rest of mankind, to “rest on the laurels” of the exploitation of Negroes, Indians, etc., keeping them in subjection with the aid of the excellent weapons of extermination provided by modern militarism. On the other hand, there is the tendency of the masses, who are more oppressed than before and who bear the whole brunt of imperialist wars, to cast off this yoke and to overthrow the bourgeoisie. It is in the struggle between these two tendencies that the history of the labour movement will now inevitably develop.”

— Lenin

#lenin: imperialism and the split in socialism #vladimir lenin #liberation #quote #socialism #anti imperialism #capitalism #marxism leninism

[liberashen]

“Capitalism makes acquisition "the ultimate purpose of life," instead of treating it as a means for the satisfaction of our needs; thus, it requires that we forfeit all spontaneous enjoyment of life. Capitalism also attempts to overcome our "natural state," by breaking the barriers of nature and by lengthening the working day beyond the limits set by the sun, the seasonal cycles, and the body itself, as constituted in pre-industrial society.”

— Silvia Federici

#silvia federici #caliban and the witch #marxist feminism #marxism #capitalism #socialism #liberation #quote