Society
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Actually, workers have always been more than mere proletarians. Much as they have been concerned about factory issues, workers are also parents who are concerned about the future of their children, men and women who are concerned about their dignity, autonomy, and growth as human beings, neighbors who are concerned about their community, and empathetic people who were concerned with social justice, civic rights, and freedom. Today, in addition to these very noneconomic issues, they have every reason to be concerned about ecological problems, the rights of minorities and women, their own loss of political and social power, and the growth of the centralized state -- problems that are not specific to a particuIar class and that cannot be resolved within the walls of factories. Indeed, it should, I think, be a matter of particular concern to anarchists to help workers become fully conscious not only of their concerns an economic class but of the broadly human concerns of the potential citizens of a free and ecological society.


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Our class has only to stop doing what it is told to do, and start doing what it collectively decides to do, to deprive its opposition of all the power they ever had and to acquire for itself all the power it will ever need.


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The more affluent a society is the more covetous it needs to be. Keep a man covetous -- 'achievement-motivated' is the approved term -- and he may kept running hard to the last day of his life.


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...it needs more than the power of his union, more even than the power of the welfare state, to afford a workman any assurance about his future.


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All people who work with their hands are partly invisible, and the more important the work they do, the less visible they are.


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...the consumption of one rich farmer's family, united to that of fifty families of miserable hinds, is not so valuable for the nation, as that of fifty families of peasants, no one of which was rich, but none deprived of an honest competence.


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...men of toil, who, being entrusted with supporting the whole nation by their labor, are the real peasants, the truly essential part of the population.


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You want labor; all right, we want it likewise, but we want it in the fullest measure. We want it, not that we may gain spare time, but that we may find all satisfaction in it itself. We want labor because it is our self-development.


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     Society -- Added : April 14, 2020

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