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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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7 years, 7 months ago

until the day before it collapses

[...] Everyone would have his own property, his own investments--everyone would be a capitalist. We took out loans to get degrees for jobs that didn't exist, took on mortgages we couldn't afford, racked up credit card bills pretending that we, too, were middle class.

Now it's clear there's no r…

—p.328 Work: Capitalism. Economics. Resistance by CrimethInc.
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7 years, 7 months ago

a consumer option like any other

[...] The reforms sought by the Sierra Club would not fundamentally change how our society relates to the environment any more than the reforms called for by the Human Society would alter the position of animals relative to human beings. Reforms such as these are chiefly aimed at easing the conscie…

—p.317 by CrimethInc.
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7 years, 7 months ago

vertigo is something other than the fear of falling

"Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect some day to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? Then why do we feel it even when the observation tower comes equipped with a sturdy handrail? No, vertigo is something other than the fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness …

—p.312 by CrimethInc.
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7 years, 7 months ago

the current economic system can't distribute access topic/drift

[...] When the International Monetary Fund forces austerity measures on a country, it's not like there's less food, housing, or education to go around than before--the problem is that the current economic system can't distribute access to these according to human need. The same goes for famines tha…

—p.308 by CrimethInc.
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7 years, 7 months ago

illegal capitalists are no different

[...] illegal capitalists are no different from their legal counterparts. If General Motors had no legal system through which to enforce patent rights, they would surely take matters into their own hands, or be supplanted by a company that would. The legal apparatus of the state is like a vast, mon…

—p.268 by CrimethInc.