The units of society […] can deprive all such antisocial adults of political rights (except the old, the sick, and those dependent on private or public subsidy)

Freedom to live […] even at the expense of individuals who voluntarily tolerate one’s exploitation.

[Whoever] wants to live in society must earn his living by his own labor, or be treated as a parasite who is living on the labor of others.

-Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary Catechism

If society were only relieved of the waste and expense of keeping a lazy class, and the equally great expense of the paraphernalia of protection this lazy class requires, the social tables would contain an abundance for all, including even the occasional lazy individual.

-Emma Goldman, Anarchism: What It Really Stands For

[The] most tempting delicacies ought to be kept for the sick and feeble – especially for the sick. Say that if there are only five brace of partridge in the entire city, and only one case of sherry, they should go to sick people and convalescents.

-Peter Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread

From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!

-Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Programme

[Humanity] will inevitably be confronted with the question of advancing further from formal equality to actual equality, i.e., to the operation of the rule “from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”.

-V.I. Lenin, The State and Revolution

  • Deer Tito (She/Her)OP
    16•2 years ago

    no authority whatsoever

    In the interest of accurate portrayal of anarchists, it should be mentioned that Bakunin had this to say about authority:

    I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed on me by my own reason. I am conscious of my own inability to grasp, in all its detail, and positive development, any very large portion of human knowledge. The greatest intelligence would not be equal to a comprehension of the whole. Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labour. I receive and I give - such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn. Therefore there is no fixed and constant authority, but a continual exchange of mutual, temporary, and, above all, voluntary authority and subordination.

    Mikhail Bakunin, What is Authority?

    Edit: Emma Goldman however said this:

    Anarchism proposes to rescue the self-respect and independence of the individual from all restraint and invasion by authority.

    Anarchism therefore stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral.

    Direct action against the authority in the shop, direct action against the authority of the law, direct action against the invasive, meddlesome authority of our moral code, is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism.

    -Emma Goldman, Anarchism: What It Really Stands For

    • AdvancedAktion
      15•2 years ago

      It is I who decide the authority, ideology of narcissists.