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
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    32 years ago

    Feel free to check the quotes, I put the quotes with links to the texts (on Marxists.org) I quoted in the body text of the post. The quotes don’t necessarily refer to disabled people specifically; I pulled quotes from texts I had read, and there may be other texts by the authors that more accurately portray their views on this group.

    Sorry if I’ve misunderstood the texts; my disabilities cause severe brain fog. I made this post to share what I had found, but also to hear if any comrades had conflicting findings.