Category: Building Solidarity

From Marina Glocovac, “A case for re-entering society based on solidarity”, Toronto Star, 12 November, 2021:   :Simone Weil, the French philosopher and activist, worked on a farm and routinely starved herself in solidarity with peasants and labourers, despite coming from a family of means.   At the age of…

“[Capitalism] is, contrary to liberal myths, the most unnatural form of social production humanity could ahve chanced on, founded as it is on the separation of free labour from the objective conditions of its realisation, from the soil as [our] natural workshop and from other means of production”.

“The timid and the prudent [of that day, 1776], were, of course, shocked and alrmed by it. Such people lived then, had lived before, and will, probably, ever have a place on the palnet; and their course in respect to any great change (no matter how great the good to…

Workers should see themselves as a class against itself”.

“It is necessary for a successful Labour leader to, or at least to appear, a little savage. It is not enough that he should love his fellow-men–he must hate them too”.