Emma Goldman - A Bankrupt Principle

'The State Idea, the authoritarian principle, has been proven bankrupt by the experience of the Russian Revolution. If I were to sum up my whole argument in one sentence I would say : The inherent tendency of the State is to concentrate, to narrow, and monopolize all social activities; the nature of the revolution is, on the contrary, to grow, to broaden, and disseminate itself in ever wider circles. In other words, the State is institutional and static; revolution is fluent, dynamic. These two ideas are incompatible and mutually destructive. The State Idea killed the Russian Revolution and it must have the same result in other revolutions, unless the libertarian idea prevail.'

'Revolution is indeed a violent process. But, if it is to result only in a change of dictatorship, in a shifting of names and political personalities, then it is hardly worth while. It is surely not worth all the struggle and the sacrifice, the stupendous loss of human life and cultural values that result from every revolution. If such a revolution were even to bring greater social well being ( which has not been the case in Russia) then it would also not be worth the terrific price paid: mere improvement can be brought about without bloody revolution.'

'Witness the tragic condition of Russia. The methods of State centralisation have paralysed individual initiative and effort; the tyranny of the dictatorship has cowed the people into slavish submission and all but extinguished the fires of liberty; organized terrorism has depraved and brutalized the masses and stifled every idealistic aspiration; institutionalised murder has cheapened human life, and all sense of the dignity of man and the value of life has been eliminated; coercion at every step has made every effort bitter, labour a punishment, has turned the whole of existence into a scheme of mutual deceit, and has revived the lowest and most brutal instincts of man.'

'America has declared war on Spain.......It did not require much political wisdom to see that America's concern was a matter of sugar and had nothing to do with humanitarian feelings. Of course there were plenty of credulous people, not only in the country at large, but even in liberal ranks, who believed in America's claim. I could not join them. I was sure that no one, be it individual or government, engaged in enslaving and exploiting at home, could have the  integrity or the desire to free people in other lands.'

Loss Of Independence

Mary Malone writes:
As capitalism develops in countries like China, India, Mexico and so on, women are raped and murdered in increasing numbers. As they are dragged out of the gift economy of autonomous society, women are faced with the violence of hierarchy. If not enslaved by bureaucratic command, they must barter their freedom for a handful of coins simply to survive.
Instead of a husband, a man who will sacrifice himself for her and her children, she must deal with a boss. In the factories of the third world, in the slums of the cities where the dispossessed flock, women are beaten, raped and killed.
Since the French Revolution men have been brutalized by conscription, first in the military, then in the hierarchy of waged labour. In ever increasing numbers women are brutalized too.
Love is no longer a gift to bestow, a holy ceremony of man and woman, but a conquest, or an exchange.
With the death of traditional society women are separated from their families and their villages. They are waged, humiliated, subjugated. They have bosses. Like men, they are degraded as the society of expropriation intensifies.
Vichy Feminism, the Feminism of the State, praises this development. Such Feminists want to see women at war with men. Divided by gender the People are easy to rule.
The degradation of the many is the price to be paid for the ego trips of the degraded few, who glory in their positions of power in politics and business. Others get their kicks as guards, teachers, social workers, police.
Far from being liberated, women's power has been expropriated by the FeminoFascists. In their powerlessness they have become a Human Resource, an Object, a Thing, prettified appetized, ready to be consumed, complicit in their own rape, heading only towards isolation, despair, madness and death.

The Centralization Of Identity

Throughout history people have identified with their neighbours, the people with whom they have formed a community. These clusters of families, these villages and tribes shared a linguistic and cultural heritage that they themselves had created.
Yet over the last couple of hundred years in particular, we have seen these autonomous communities dismantled, the people who formed a part of these groups detached and isolated, and the values they adhere to, handed down by hierarchs.
Through mass schooling, the media and the imposition of centralised language the military bureaucratic gang imposes its values.
We are made to identify with the State, an entity that gathers taxes and wages war.
Through the sop of democracy we are led to identify with the War State. Despite our lack of power we encouraged to see the State as 'We'.
Around here we are told that we are 'British'. Britain may be a geographical area, an island, or a state, but it is not a country. It is not a people. It is not a religion. It is not a culture.
Only, the overseer class, rootless nobodies from nowhere, identify with a state. Their identity has been expropriated by the Hierarchy.
The overseer class like to travel, to seek out a little difference, floating above the little people who they might meet in the capacity of servants. If they are lucky they might meet foreign overseers who eat different shaped bread.
The Poor still cling onto their culture, but the Overseers have surrendered completely to received culture. They no longer belong to their families, nor their tribes, nor their villages. Yet, for all their sacrifice they do not have the rewards of the elite. All they have is their pride in the power they have over the Poor. And they have their morality.
It is Morality that is the identity of the Overseer.
Be it the submission of Islam or the prison of the Politically Correct, the Overseers are united in hate and self-righteousness and condemnation of the Poor.

Glad To Serve Caesar

In autonomous societies, both rural and urban, which have been the norm in Europe for most of the past two thousand years, the duties of the Christian to love their neighbour has been obvious, given the communal and mutually dependent relations dominant in such societies.
But in an age of hierarchy and vertical power the State takes on the services that were once provided by people freely, one to another.
Many Christians work in the 'caring' professions, and it is a fact that their dedication to duty is much appreciated by everyone around them. But being a specialist who is paid to care, such as a nurse or a teacher, begs the question; who are they serving, Christ or Caesar? Whose agenda are they following?
Many Christians come to believe that there is somehow something virtuous about working in the 'public sector', despite its non Christian and authoritarian structure. They believe that working for a profit is somehow selfish and unchristian and uncharitable, that only by working for the State can they do good, that taxation and a powerful state is a good thing. They are glad to keep watch over the people, glad to serve Caesar.

Bombing Again

People in government in the United Kingdom such as Hague and Cameron, seem very keen to order, once again, the deaths of very many peaceful and innocent people to further their foreign policy objectives.
Only last week these criminals, along with their hirelings in the Vichy press, were eager to have people in Syria meet horrible deaths, suffer unimaginable agony, injury, bereavement, to further their aims.
On the BBC I heard one commentator explain that the use of sarin gas was by the Syrian government, that although it was insane of them to use it, as they are winning, and it was while weapons inspectors were in town, it was all a cunning game of double bluff by the evil dictator. Yes, really.
A newspaper explained that it was all the doing of the dictator's crazed one legged brother. I doubt it. Surely it was the youngest brother what done it, the one with the hunchback.
The United Kingdom, like some of its allies, are big on selling weapons, big on the military, big on the glorification of violence. Like back street thugs our political elites believe problems can be sorted by violence. A handful of NATO countries have elites that behave with such barbarism. In the rest of the world barbarism and uniforms are fast going out of fashion. Only certain NATO countries commit war crimes on a regular basis, bombing other countries, killing and maiming the innocent, using murder as an instrument of policy.
Throughout the world these criminals are regarded with revulsion. Civilised countries only do business with them under duress. It is trade that is leading to growing wealth throughout much of the world, yet these savages, the leaders of the world's most powerful military bureaucratic complexes sow death and destruction.
These cowards, who drop their terrorist bombs from far away safety, deserve the fate of Saddam. Indeed they are lesser men than Saddam. At least Saddam had courage.

Rudyard Kipling - A Death Bed

'This is the State above the Law
The State exists for the State alone.'
(This is a gland at the back of the jaw,
And an answering lump by the collarbone.)
Some die shouting in gas or fire;
Some die silent, by shell and shot.
Some die desperate, caught on the wire;
Some die suddenly. This will not.

'Regis suprema voluntas lex'
(It will follow the regular course - of throats.)
Some die pinned by the broken decks,
Some die sobbing between the boats.

Some die eloquent, pressed to death
By the sliding trench as their friends can hear.
Some die wholly in half a breath,
Some give trouble for half a year.

'There is neither Evil nor Good in life
Except as the needs of the State ordain.
(Since it is rather too late for the knife
All we can do is mask the pain.)

Some die saintly in faith and hope.........
One thus died in a prison yard........
Some die broken by rape or the rope;
Some die easily. This dies hard.

'I will dash to pieces who bar my way.
Woe to the traitor! Woe to the weak!
(Let him write what he wishes to say.
It tires him out if he tries to speak.)

Some die quietly, some abound
In loud self-pity. Others spread
Bad morale through the cots around.....
This is a type that is better dead.

'The war was forced on me by my foes.
All that I sought was aright to live.
(Don't be afraid of a triple dose;
The pain will neutralise half we give.

Here are the needles. See that he dies
While the effects of the drug endure....
What is the question he asks with his eyes?.......
Yes, All Highest, to God, be sure.)

John 6 - The Bread Of Grace

'Verily,verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven and giveth life to the world.'

The bread that Moses gave to the Israelites was the Law. The Law included the ceremonial Law which was mainly to do with sacrifice. But through the moral Law the people learnt the concept of Sin, that unlike their Creator, they were not perfect.
But Christ set us free from the power of Sin by becoming our sacrifice.
Christ obeyed the Law perfectly for us who are unable to obey the Law. He loved perfectly for us, whose selfishness prohibits us from loving so much, and he suffered perfectly for us, whose suffering is marred by self-pity.

Moses brought us the Law, and the Law set the people free from the blind fear which possessed the heathen.

But it still left them with the reasonable fear of the condemnation of a just God.
Then Jesus Christ came to live among us, to suffer and die for us, to be resurrected to eternal life, the first of the children of God.
God had extended his mercy to the people. The Law came through Moses, but truth and grace came through Jesus Christ.