The system works because you work.
Istari Lasterfahrer’s album’s title
#402
The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.
Bertrand Russell
#368
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it.
Upton Sinclair
#290
Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
And you think you’re so clever and class less and free
But you’re still fucking peasants as far as I can see
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
John Lennon, Working Class Hero
#242
They pit the lifers against the new boys; the young against the old; the black against the white. Everything they do is to keep us in our place.
Blue Collar (the movie)
#199
What most genuinely and clearly differentiates the bourgeoisie and the proletariat in this epoch is myth. The bourgeoisie no longer has any myths. (…) The proletariat has a myth: the social revolution.
José Carlos Mariátegui
#197
Capitalists turn the producer into a mere particle of a machine, with less will and decision than his master of steel and iron.
Emma Goldman
#188
When the workers are too weak to fight, the terror-based system arises.
Solidarity letter from Polish to Italian FIAT workers
#157
If you think that by hanging us you can stamp out the labour movement (…) then hang us! Here you will tread on a spark, but there and there, behind you — and in front of you, and everywhere, flames blaze up. It is a subterranean fire. You cannot put it out.
August Spies
