21th Century – Anarchist Quotes

"We won the revolution, what we lost was the war."

— Abel Paz,
Anarchist Activist (1921 ‐ 2009)
Spanish anarcho-syndicalist and historian.

"Cybernetics is going to drive the whole world to decentralization which is what the anarchists have always urged. -"

— Robert Anton Wilson,
prolific anarchist thinker (1932 ‐ 2007)
Author, futurist and self-described agnostic mystic

"[Warren and Proudhon's idea] originated independently, just as like Leibniz and Newton invented the calculus, or Darwin and Wallace invented the theory of evolution simultaneously, Warren and Proudhon devoted a great deal of energy to the mutual banking idea."

— Robert Anton Wilson,
prolific anarchist thinker (1932 ‐ 2007)
Author, futurist and self-described agnostic mystic

"The best defense for the new society lies in it asserting its revolutionary character because this quickly creates conditions in which no attempt at a restoration of the bourgeoisie will find a solid base."

— Georges Fontenis,
Libertarian Revolutionary (1920 ‐ 2010)
French libertarian communist, revolutionary and syndicalist

"The hundreds of workers' associations organized during the period 1870-1900 and the tens of publications give ample testimony to the energetic anarchist activity designed to destroy bourgeois, state and religious influences among workers."

— Abel Paz,
Anarchist Activist (1921 ‐ 2009)
Spanish anarcho-syndicalist and historian.

"If you list almost all of the assassinations that have been attributed to anarchists and assume that all of them were performed by anarchists (which is a dubious assumption by the way -- many of them were police frame-ups), but on that assumption it still turns out that more anarchists have been murdered by governments than all that can be accused of having murdered governors."

— Robert Anton Wilson,
prolific anarchist thinker (1932 ‐ 2007)
Author, futurist and self-described agnostic mystic

"The revolution consisted in the fact that the workers became masters of the instruments of labor and did not falter in their management of the means of production."

— Abel Paz,
Anarchist Activist (1921 ‐ 2009)
Spanish anarcho-syndicalist and historian.

"Even in infancy, while a person is dependent on another, abuses are committed and slavery and tyranny exist. It should be the purpose of free schools to study the reasons for such a lack of solidarity, to draw the attention of the pupils to what they actually see."

— Abel Paz,
Anarchist Activist (1921 ‐ 2009)
Spanish anarcho-syndicalist and historian.

"It is obvious that in order to act you need a body of coherent ideas. Contradictions and hesitations prevent ideas getting through."

— Georges Fontenis,
Libertarian Revolutionary (1920 ‐ 2010)
French libertarian communist, revolutionary and syndicalist

"The leaders of the "official" anarchist movement, still preoccupied with hiding the weaknesses and the inconsistencies, blurring the responsibility, avoiding the fundamental theoretical problems, avoid discussion or are satisfied with a few reluctant confessions and regrets."

— Georges Fontenis,
Libertarian Revolutionary (1920 ‐ 2010)
French libertarian communist, revolutionary and syndicalist

"Nothing wrong with communist anarchism as long as it remains voluntary. Any one that wants to go make a commune, go ahead, do it. I got nothing against it. As long as there's room to the individualist to do his or her own thing."

— Robert Anton Wilson,
prolific anarchist thinker (1932 ‐ 2007)
Author, futurist and self-described agnostic mystic

"I think government should be treated like religion, everyone should be able to pick the kind they like. Only it should be contractual not obligatory."

— Robert Anton Wilson,
prolific anarchist thinker (1932 ‐ 2007)
Author, futurist and self-described agnostic mystic

"Durruti had learned endless things during the months of civil war, but the main lesson that he received was a full confirmation of the working class's capacity to govern itself and the damage done by the committees' bureaucratic leaderism."

— Abel Paz,
Anarchist Activist (1921 ‐ 2009)
Spanish anarcho-syndicalist and historian.

"There is nothing proletarian -- or revolutionary about immoralist cynicism."

— Georges Fontenis,
Libertarian Revolutionary (1920 ‐ 2010)
French libertarian communist, revolutionary and syndicalist

"One could wager, considering the number of anarchists when Franco took over, probably a considerable portion of the Spanish population are still anarchists. And if they could get out from under the Franco dictatorship they could attempt to implement anarchism once again."

— Robert Anton Wilson,
prolific anarchist thinker (1932 ‐ 2007)
Author, futurist and self-described agnostic mystic

"The [specifically anarchist] organization is not a union or contractual understanding between individuals bringing their own artificial ideological convictions. It arises and develops as an organic, natural way because it corresponds to a real need."

— Georges Fontenis,
Libertarian Revolutionary (1920 ‐ 2010)
French libertarian communist, revolutionary and syndicalist

"Well I sometimes call myself a libertarian but that's only because most people don't know what anarchist means. Most people hear you're an anarchist and they think you're getting ready to throw a bomb at a building."

— Robert Anton Wilson,
prolific anarchist thinker (1932 ‐ 2007)
Author, futurist and self-described agnostic mystic

"Everybody who has ever worked for a corporation knows that corporations conspire all the time. Politicians conspire all the time, pot-dealers conspire not to get caught by the narcs, the world is full of conspiracies. Conspiracy is natural primate behavior."

— Robert Anton Wilson,
prolific anarchist thinker (1932 ‐ 2007)
Author, futurist and self-described agnostic mystic

"The revolution did not fail, it was defeated militarily. Perhaps with the passage of time it would have developed a paralyzing bureaucracy but we will never know."

— Abel Paz,
Anarchist Activist (1921 ‐ 2009)
Spanish anarcho-syndicalist and historian.

"The act of revolution brings an immediate transformation in the sense that the foundations of society are radically changed, but a progressive transformation in the sense that communism is a constant development."

— Georges Fontenis,
Libertarian Revolutionary (1920 ‐ 2010)
French libertarian communist, revolutionary and syndicalist

"Let us not lose time asking an imaginary god for what only human effort can obtain for us."

— Abel Paz,
Anarchist Activist (1921 ‐ 2009)
Spanish anarcho-syndicalist and historian.

"Let us not lose time asking others to give us what we can obtain ourselves."

— Abel Paz,
Anarchist Activist (1921 ‐ 2009)
Spanish anarcho-syndicalist and historian.

"If the Russian revolution was a victory, who won? The workers? No. On the other hand, the Commune of Paris was a great working class victory. Ours, too."

— Abel Paz,
Anarchist Activist (1921 ‐ 2009)
Spanish anarcho-syndicalist and historian.

"We have become a civilization based on work—not even “productive work” but work as an end and meaning in itself."

— David Graeber,
Anarcho-Communist (1961 ‐ 2020)
Anthropologist, anarchist activist and author

"Shit jobs tend to be blue collar and pay by the hour, whereas bullshit jobs tend to be white collar and salaried."

— David Graeber,
Anarcho-Communist (1961 ‐ 2020)
Anthropologist, anarchist activist and author

"The anarchist conclusion is that every kind of human activity should begin from what from what is local and immediate, should link in a network with no centre and no directing agency, hiving off new cells as the original grows."

— Colin Ward,
Anarcho-mutualist (1924 ‐ 2010)
British writer and anarchist

"It’s hard to imagine a surer sign that one is dealing with an irrational economic system than the fact that the prospect of eliminating drudgery is considered to be a problem."

— David Graeber,
Anarcho-Communist (1961 ‐ 2020)
Anthropologist, anarchist activist and author

"For Christian anarchists...the goal of anarchy is theonomy — the rule, the ordering, the arky of God."

— Vernard Eller,
Religious Pacifist (1927 ‐ 2007)
Christian anarchist and author

"Revolutionary liberation must be a self-liberation that reaches social dimensions, not mass liberation or class liberation behind which lurks the rule of an elite, a hierarchy and a state."

— Murray Bookchin,
Anarcho-Communist (1921 ‐ 2006)
Philosopher, social theorist, author

"The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself."

— Ursula K. Le Guin,
anarcho-feminist (1929 ‐ 2018)
Influential author and political activist

"You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere."

— Ursula K. Le Guin,
anarcho-feminist (1929 ‐ 2018)
Influential author and political activist

"The anti-sexualism of authoritarian societies and the people who run them does not spring from conviction (they themselves have sex), but from the vague perception that freedom here might lead to a liking for freedom elsewhere."

— Alex Comfort,
Anarcho-pacifist (1920 ‐ 2000)
British scientist and novelist, advocate of free love

"The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently."

— David Graeber,
Anarcho-Communist (1961 ‐ 2020)
Anthropologist, anarchist activist and author

"The state is not something which can be destroyed by a revolution, but is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of human behaviour; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently."

— Colin Ward,
Anarcho-mutualist (1924 ‐ 2010)
British writer and anarchist

"Police are bureaucrats with weapons."

— David Graeber,
Anarcho-Communist (1961 ‐ 2020)
Anthropologist, anarchist activist and author

"Money has no essence. It's not really anything; therefore, its nature has always been and presumably always will be a matter of political contention."

— David Graeber,
Anarcho-Communist (1961 ‐ 2020)
Anthropologist, anarchist activist and author

"It is impossible to achieve a harmonization of man and nature without creating a human community that lives in a lasting balance with its natural environment."

— Murray Bookchin,
Anarcho-Communist (1921 ‐ 2006)
Philosopher, social theorist, author

"Anarchists have a 'bad name' in the media, not because they can point to one indiscriminate massacre by anarchists--there have been none--but because the one thing holders of power fear is that they personally should be held responsible for their own actions"

— Stuart Christie,
Anarcho-communist (1946 ‐ 2020)
Anarchist writer, publisher and activist

"There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within living things."

— Murray Bookchin,
Anarcho-Communist (1921 ‐ 2006)
Philosopher, social theorist, author

"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words."

— Ursula K. Le Guin,
anarcho-feminist (1929 ‐ 2018)
Influential author and political activist

"Efficiency' has come to mean vesting more and more power to managers, supervisors, and presumed 'efficiency experts,' so that actual producers have almost zero autonomy."

— David Graeber,
Anarcho-Communist (1961 ‐ 2020)
Anthropologist, anarchist activist and author

"We must consciously create our own world, not according to mindless customs and destructive prejudices, but according to the canons of reason, reflection, and discourse that uniquely belong to our own species."

— Murray Bookchin,
Anarcho-Communist (1921 ‐ 2006)
Philosopher, social theorist, author

"An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles."

— Murray Bookchin,
Anarcho-Communist (1921 ‐ 2006)
Philosopher, social theorist, author

"The history of anarchism is a history of unparalleled defeat and martyrdom, yet anarchists venerate their victimized forebears with a morbid devotion which occasions suspicion that the anarchists, like everybody else, think that the only good anarchist is a dead one."

— Bob Black,
post-left anarchist (1951 ‐ 2020)
American author and anarchist.

"As a credo, individualist anarchism remained largely a bohemian lifestyle, most conspicuous in its demands for sexual freedom ("free love") and enamored of innovations in art, behavior, and clothing."

— Murray Bookchin,
Anarcho-Communist (1921 ‐ 2006)
Philosopher, social theorist, author

"No one should ever work... In order to stop suffering, we have to stop working."

— Bob Black,
post-left anarchist (1951 ‐ 2020)
American author and anarchist.

"Every organization has more in common with every other organization than it does with any of the unorganized."

— Bob Black,
post-left anarchist (1951 ‐ 2020)
American author and anarchist.

"Freedom means more than the right to change masters."

— Bob Black,
post-left anarchist (1951 ‐ 2020)
American author and anarchist.

""Communist society"; in the sense of a society organized exclusively on that single principle - could never exist. But all social systems, even economic systems like capitalism, have always been built on top of a bedrock of actually-existing communism."

— David Graeber,
Anarcho-Communist (1961 ‐ 2020)
Anthropologist, anarchist activist and author

"The great majority of people have to work in order to earn a livelihood, and a sizable proportion of them are productive workers. A huge number of workers are unproductive as well. They operate entirely with the circumstances and framework created by the capitalist system, such as shuffling invoices, contracts, credit slips, insurance policies, and so forth. Probably nine out of ten "workers" wouldn't have any work to do in a rational society - one that would not require insurance or any other commercial transactions."

— Murray Bookchin,
Anarcho-Communist (1921 ‐ 2006)
Philosopher, social theorist, author

"The conflict between wage labor and capital, while it has by no means disappeared, nonetheless lacks the all-embracing importance that it possessed in the past."

— Murray Bookchin,
Anarcho-Communist (1921 ‐ 2006)
Philosopher, social theorist, author

"Once you drain the vitality from people at work, they'll likely submit to heirarchy and expertise in everything. They're used to it."

— Bob Black,
post-left anarchist (1951 ‐ 2020)
American author and anarchist.

"Unless we realize that the present market society, structured around the brutally competitive imperative of "grow or die," is a thoroughly impersonal, self-operating mechanism, we will falsely tend to blame other phenomena - such as technology or population growth - for growing environmental dislocations."

— Murray Bookchin,
Anarcho-Communist (1921 ‐ 2006)
Philosopher, social theorist, author

"Social ecology is based on the conviction that nearly all of our present ecological problems originate in deep-seated social problems."

— Murray Bookchin,
Anarcho-Communist (1921 ‐ 2006)
Philosopher, social theorist, author

"If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable."

— Murray Bookchin,
Anarcho-Communist (1921 ‐ 2006)
Philosopher, social theorist, author

"The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology."

— Murray Bookchin,
Anarcho-Communist (1921 ‐ 2006)
Philosopher, social theorist, author

"Basically, revolutionaries never go far enough, and if they're not going to go far enough, they should stop upsetting people. Or killing them, for that matter."

— Bob Black,
post-left anarchist (1951 ‐ 2020)
American author and anarchist.

"Cleansed of its leftist residues, anarchy - anarchism minus Marxism - will be free to get better at being what it is."

— Bob Black,
post-left anarchist (1951 ‐ 2020)
American author and anarchist.

"A worker is a part-time slave."

— Bob Black,
post-left anarchist (1951 ‐ 2020)
American author and anarchist.

"To demonize state authoritarianism while ignoring identical albeit contract-consecrated subservient arrangements in the large-scale corporations which control the world economy is fetishism at its worst."

— Bob Black,
post-left anarchist (1951 ‐ 2020)
American author and anarchist.

"The idea of dominating nature has a history that is almost as old as that of hierarchy itself."

— Murray Bookchin,
Anarcho-Communist (1921 ‐ 2006)
Philosopher, social theorist, author

"To my mind a right-wing anarchist is just a minarchist who'd abolish the state to his own satisfaction by calling it something else."

— Bob Black,
post-left anarchist (1951 ‐ 2020)
American author and anarchist.

"I believe in individual freedom; that's my primary and complete commitment - individual liberty. That's what it's all about. And that's what socialism was supposed to be about, or anarchism was supposed to be about, and tragically has been betrayed."

— Murray Bookchin,
Anarcho-Communist (1921 ‐ 2006)
Philosopher, social theorist, author

"We no longer like to think about bureaucracy, yet it informs every aspect of out existence. It's as if as a planetary civilization, we have decided to clap out hands over our ears and start humming whenever the topic comes up."

— David Graeber,
Anarcho-Communist (1961 ‐ 2020)
Anthropologist, anarchist activist and author

"Unfortunately, a preoccupation with technical size, scale, and even artistry deflects our attention away from the most significant problems of technics - notably, its ties with the ideals and social structures of freedom."

— Murray Bookchin,
Anarcho-Communist (1921 ‐ 2006)
Philosopher, social theorist, author

"The critical human flaw is not that as a species we're particularly aggressive. It's that we tend to respond to aggression very poorly."

— David Graeber,
Anarcho-Communist (1961 ‐ 2020)
Anthropologist, anarchist activist and author

"I think my basic viewpoint is that everything the left and right say about each other is true. And the reason it's true is because they have so much in common."

— Bob Black,
post-left anarchist (1951 ‐ 2020)
American author and anarchist.

"The demeaning system of domination I've described rules over half the waking hours of a majority of women and the vast majority of men for decades, for most of their lifespans."

— Bob Black,
post-left anarchist (1951 ‐ 2020)
American author and anarchist.

"I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it."

— George Carlin,
individualist anarchist (1937 ‐ 2008)
Stand-up comedian and social critic

"No one should ever work. Workers of the world... relax!"

— Bob Black,
post-left anarchist (1951 ‐ 2020)
American author and anarchist.

"What underpins every social conflict in the United States today is the demand for the realization of all human potentialities in a fully rounded, balanced, totalistic way of life."

— Murray Bookchin,
Anarcho-Communist (1921 ‐ 2006)
Philosopher, social theorist, author

"It's one thing to say, "Another world is possible." It's another to experience it, however momentarily."

— David Graeber,
Anarcho-Communist (1961 ‐ 2020)
Anthropologist, anarchist activist and author

"Take the principle that two wrongs don't make a right. If you really took it seriously, that alone would knock away almost the entire basis for war and the criminal justice system."

— David Graeber,
Anarcho-Communist (1961 ‐ 2020)
Anthropologist, anarchist activist and author

"Given a choice between anarchism and anarchy, most anarchists would go for the anarchism ideology and subculture rather than take a dangerous leap into the unknown, into a world of stateless liberty."

— Bob Black,
post-left anarchist (1951 ‐ 2020)
American author and anarchist.

"The criminalization of debt was the criminalization of the very basis of human society."

— David Graeber,
Anarcho-Communist (1961 ‐ 2020)
Anthropologist, anarchist activist and author

"Marxist schools have authors. Just as Marxism sprang from the mind of Marx, so we have Leninists, Maoists, Trotksyites, Gramscians, Althusserians... Now consider the different schools of anarchism. There are Anarcho-Syndicalists, Anarcho-Communists, Insurrectionists, Cooperativists, Individualists, Platformists... None are named after some great thinker; instead, they are invariably named either after some kind of practice, or most often, organizational principle."

— David Graeber,
Anarcho-Communist (1961 ‐ 2020)
Anthropologist, anarchist activist and author

"I don't vote, because I firmly believe that if you vote, you have no right to complain."

— George Carlin,
individualist anarchist (1937 ‐ 2008)
Stand-up comedian and social critic

"At their very simplest, anarchist beliefs turn on to two elementary assumptions. The first is that human beings are, under ordinary circumstances, about as reasonable and decent as they are allowed to be, and can organize themselves and their communities without needing to be told how. The second is that power corrupts."

— David Graeber,
Anarcho-Communist (1961 ‐ 2020)
Anthropologist, anarchist activist and author

"Direct action is the insistence, when faced with structures of unjust authority, on acting as if one is already free."

— David Graeber,
Anarcho-Communist (1961 ‐ 2020)
Anthropologist, anarchist activist and author

"We were founded on a very basic double standard: This country was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free."

— George Carlin,
individualist anarchist (1937 ‐ 2008)
Stand-up comedian and social critic

"It is the secret scandal of capitalism that at no point has it been organized primarily around free labor."

— David Graeber,
Anarcho-Communist (1961 ‐ 2020)
Anthropologist, anarchist activist and author

"Most anarchists are, frankly, incapable of living in an autonomous cooperative manner. A lot of them aren't very bright. They tend to peruse their own classics and insider literature to the exclusion of broader knowledge of the world we live in."

— Bob Black,
post-left anarchist (1951 ‐ 2020)
American author and anarchist.

"When lifestyle anarchists call for autonomy rather than freedom, they thereby forfeit the rich social connotations of freedom."

— Murray Bookchin,
Anarcho-Communist (1921 ‐ 2006)
Philosopher, social theorist, author

"Certainly, it is already no longer possible, in my view, to call oneself an anarchist without adding a qualifying adjective to distinguish oneself from lifestyle anarchists."

— Murray Bookchin,
Anarcho-Communist (1921 ‐ 2006)
Philosopher, social theorist, author

"In fact, communism is the foundation of all human sociability. It is what makes society possible."

— David Graeber,
Anarcho-Communist (1961 ‐ 2020)
Anthropologist, anarchist activist and author

"A syndicalist is more likely to be a professor than a proletarian, more likely to be a folk singer than a factory worker. Organizers on principle, syndicalists are disunited and factionalized. Remarkably, this dullest of all anarchisms attracts some of the most irrational and hysterical adherents."

— Bob Black,
post-left anarchist (1951 ‐ 2020)
American author and anarchist.

"The point social ecology emphasizes is not that moral and spiritual persuasion and renewal are meaningless or unnecessary; they are necessary and can be educational. But modern capitalism is structurally amoral and hence impervious to moral appeals."

— Murray Bookchin,
Anarcho-Communist (1921 ‐ 2006)
Philosopher, social theorist, author

"Under a system of permanent revelry, we will witness the Golden Age of the dilettante which will put the Renaissance to shame. There won't be any more jobs, just things to do and people to do them."

— Bob Black,
post-left anarchist (1951 ‐ 2020)
American author and anarchist.

"Catholics and other Christians are against abortions and they're against homosexuals. Well who has less abortions than homosexuals?"

— George Carlin,
individualist anarchist (1937 ‐ 2008)
Stand-up comedian and social critic

"Ironically, the world idealized by primitivists would actually preclude the radical individualism celebrated by the individualist heirs of Max Stirner."

— Murray Bookchin,
Anarcho-Communist (1921 ‐ 2006)
Philosopher, social theorist, author

"We need anarchists unencumbered by anarchism. Then, and only then, we can begin to get serious about fomenting anarchy."

— Bob Black,
post-left anarchist (1951 ‐ 2020)
American author and anarchist.

"It's called the American Dream, 'cause you have to be asleep to believe it."

— George Carlin,
individualist anarchist (1937 ‐ 2008)
Stand-up comedian and social critic

"Rights aren't rights if someone can take them away. They're privileges. That's all we've ever had in this country, is a bill of temporary privileges."

— George Carlin,
individualist anarchist (1937 ‐ 2008)
Stand-up comedian and social critic

"Like it or not, the future of life on this planet pivots on the future of society."

— Murray Bookchin,
Anarcho-Communist (1921 ‐ 2006)
Philosopher, social theorist, author

"The sovereign, self-sufficient "individual" has always been a precarious basis upon which to anchor a left libertarian outlook."

— Murray Bookchin,
Anarcho-Communist (1921 ‐ 2006)
Philosopher, social theorist, author

"Our standard account of monetary history is precisely backwards. We did not begin with barter, discover money, and then eventually develop credit systems. It happened precisely the other way around."

— David Graeber,
Anarcho-Communist (1961 ‐ 2020)
Anthropologist, anarchist activist and author

"Everyone complains about politicians. Everyone says they suck. But where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky; they don't pass through a membrane from a separate reality. They come from American homes, American families, American schools, American churches, and American businesses. And they're elected by American voters. This is what our system produces, folks. This is the best we can do."

— George Carlin,
individualist anarchist (1937 ‐ 2008)
Stand-up comedian and social critic

"What is a debt, anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence."

— David Graeber,
Anarcho-Communist (1961 ‐ 2020)
Anthropologist, anarchist activist and author

"Anarchism is just the way people act when they are free to do as they choose, and when they deal with others who are equally free."

— David Graeber,
Anarcho-Communist (1961 ‐ 2020)
Anthropologist, anarchist activist and author

"If the existence of bullshit jobs seems to defy the logic of capitalism, one possible reason for their proliferation might be that the existing system isn't capitalism."

— David Graeber,
Anarcho-Communist (1961 ‐ 2020)
Anthropologist, anarchist activist and author

"I stubbornly persist in my opposition to the state. But not because, as anarchists so often thoughtlessly declaim, the state is not "necessary". Ordinary people dismiss this anarchist assertion as ludicrous, and so they should. Obviously, in an industrialized class society like ours, the state is necessary."

— Bob Black,
post-left anarchist (1951 ‐ 2020)
American author and anarchist.

"I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me."

— George Carlin,
individualist anarchist (1937 ‐ 2008)
Stand-up comedian and social critic

"Consumer debt is the lifeblood of our economy. All modern nation states are built on deficit spending. Debt has come to be the central issue of international politics. But nobody seems to know exactly what it is, or how to think about it."

— David Graeber,
Anarcho-Communist (1961 ‐ 2020)
Anthropologist, anarchist activist and author

"You may be wondering if I'm joking or serious. I'm joking and serious."

— Bob Black,
post-left anarchist (1951 ‐ 2020)
American author and anarchist.

"The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you."

— George Carlin,
individualist anarchist (1937 ‐ 2008)
Stand-up comedian and social critic

"Post-leftist anarchists are striking off in many directions. Some may find the way - better yet, the ways - to a free future."

— Bob Black,
post-left anarchist (1951 ‐ 2020)
American author and anarchist.

"Our being is becoming, not stasis. Our science is utopia, our reality is eros, our desire is revolution."

— Murray Bookchin,
Anarcho-Communist (1921 ‐ 2006)
Philosopher, social theorist, author

"A libertarian is just a Republican who takes drugs."

— Bob Black,
post-left anarchist (1951 ‐ 2020)
American author and anarchist.

"The world does not belong to us. If it has a master who is stupid enough to want it the way it is, let him have it."

— Alfredo Bonanno,
Political Activist
Italian anarchist and writer