The Red Association (1870).
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense,
a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
The workers necessarily strive after a fundamental transformation
of society, the result of which must be the abolition of classes,
equally in economic as in political respects: after a system of
society in which all men will enter the world under special conditions,
will be able to unfold and develop themselves, work and enjoy
the good things of life. These are the demands of justice.
But how can we from the abyss of ignorance, of misery and slavery,
in which the workers on the land and in the cities are sunk, arrive
at that paradise, the realization of justice and manhood? For
t... (From : Marxists.org.)
THE TYRANNY OF THE CLOCK
George Woodcock
First published in War Commentary - For Anarchism mid-march
1944.
In no characteristic is existing society in the West so sharply distinguished
from the earlier societies, whether of Europe or the East, than in its
conception of time. To the ancient Chinese or Greek, to the Arab herdsman
or Mexican peon of today, time is represented in the cyclic processes of
nature, the alternation of day and night, the passage from season to season.
The nomads and farmers measured and still measure their day from sunrise
to sunset, and their year in terms of the seedtime and harvest, of the
falling leaf and the ice thawing on the lakes and rivers. The farmer worked
according to the elements, the ... (From : Spunk.org.)