User:BakuninGoldmanKropotkin

About BakuninGoldmanKropotkin
93, My name is Eric. My user name is a reference to Mikhail Bakunin, Emma Goldman, and Peter Kropotkin. I prefer to identify as an anarchist and libertarian. I am critical of wage slavery and am interested in workers' self-management. I am interested in anarchist economics, anarchist law, co-operative economics, participatory economics, participatory democracy, and war crimes, among other things. I enjoy reading about and experiencing altered states of consciousness, especially the hypnagogic and hypnopompic hallucinations that sometimes accompany sleep paralysis. My favorite film director is David Lynch, whose stylistic incorporation of surrealism and film noir is astounding. Film is a kind of voyeurism. I love contemporary philosophy and political philosophy. I support sex-positive feminism. I am primarily interested in reading criticisms of these: religion, science (also see: scientism, criticism of science and antiscience), patriotism, nationalism, schooling, capitalism and wage labor, and Marxism/the dictatorship of the proletariat. I wholeheartedly support radical unschooling and anti-schooling activism. I support the prison abolition movement and the Anarchist Black Cross. I am not a pacifist. 93 93/93, BakuninGoldmanKropotkin

Quotes
Thomas Jefferson in a letter to John Norvell (11 June 1807): "To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, `by restraining it to true facts & sound principles only.' Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits, than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood. Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper.  Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. . . . I will add, that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors.  He who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false."

Howard Ehrlich on the black flag: "Why is our flag black? Black is a shade of negation. The black flag is the﻿ negation of all flags. It is a negation of nationhood which puts the human race against itself and denies the unity of all humankind. Black is a mood of anger and outrage at all the hideous crimes against humanity perpetrated in the name of allegiance to one state or another. It is anger and outrage at the insult to human intelligence implied in the pretences, hypocrisies, and cheap chicaneries of governments. Black is also a colour of mourning; the black flag which cancels out the nation also mourns its victims the countless millions murdered in wars, external and internal, to the greater glory and stability of some bloody state. It mourns for those whose labour is robbed (taxed) to pay for the slaughter and oppression of other human beings. It mourns﻿ not only the death of the body but the crippling of the spirit under authoritarian and hierarchic systems; it mourns the millions of brain cells blacked out with never a chance to light up the world. It is a colour of inconsolable grief."