That's what I'm trying to get over: the idea that anarchism offers a description of equitable relations that go way back rather than a hypothesis of what the future should look like.
Rebecca SolnitThe power of large corporations is still a scourge on the earth, but at least the arguments supporting them are undermined now.
Rebecca SolnitPain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of.
Rebecca SolnitAnarchists believe that we can govern ourselves in the absence of coercive and centralized authority; the underlying premise about human nature (to use an infinitely problematized but necessary term here) is fundamentally positive. And the evidence that in disasters people are really pretty kind, generous, brave, resourceful and creative fed that.
Rebecca Solnit