Emma Goldman

A century ago Emma Goldman was something of an Anarchist Superstar. These days she would be banned as a 'hate preacher'. Indeed, she was imprisoned and deported at various times, so perhaps nothing much has changed. The only difference is that, unlike the modern 'hate preachers', she wasn't working for the government. 
Here are some quotes from her:

'If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.'

'Merely external emancipation has made of modern woman an artificial being. Now woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.'

'Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colours will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.'

'It requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.'

'Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism.'

'The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.'

'The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.'

'Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.'

'Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?'

Purity and Dualism

From Mary Malone's The Denial Of Woman:

Ever since the rise of Buddhism and Zoroastrianism two and a half thousand years ago, Authority has been based on the Denial of Woman.
These religions advocated a withdrawal from the 'world'. They were the beginnings of the heresy of Dualism, the idea that thee 'good' spiritual world opposes the 'bad' material world. 'Good' is redefined as obedience to Authority and men withdrawing from their obligations to serve women.
Once upon a time, virtue was simply that which was life affirmative, both for the individual and the group. But in an era of consolidation of military bureaucratic complexes throughout the world, a time when the family and the village, the natural sources of authority, have become the enemy of centralized Authority, the ethics of life affirmation are condemned as dangerous for the newly subjected people.
New religions which exalt a priestly caste were created. The priestly caste must be set above the people. The natural yearning for love and life must be condemned as 'evil'
Dualism and the religions of death promote the idea that the world of the spirit is good, and our material world is evil.
Could anything be more sick than to condemn life as 'evil'?
The hierarchy, the priestly caste, separated themselves from the people by their devotion to the ideology of death. Whether they be Buddhas or Brahmins, or Catholic priests or Cathar 'Perfects', virtue came to mean separation from 'the world'.
In essence virtue came to mean the separation of man from woman.
The Patriarchs of the Military Bureaucratic Complexes saw Woman as temptation, flesh, birth, life - and all this was regarded as dirty.
Their Patriarchal power rested on the subjection of woman, for it is man's natural role to serve Woman. Woman is the essential half of humanity, Man, only the support service.
So Woman needed to be mocked, ridiculed, belittled, diminished in her own eyes, and most of all, to keep the men from their natural role as women's servants, damned as unclean.
Woman was condemned by the Dualists. She was dirty by nature. Only perpetual virginity could save her. Only by denying Woman's sacred nature as the priestess of the mysteries of life, was she acceptable in the eyes of the Patriarchs.
By branding her unclean, Woman's greatness was turned against her. 
Hence the mockery of the Virgin Mary, the so called Theotokos, whose chief characteristic is her genital mutilation, when we all know the true woman lives on in the Magdalene, neither virgin nor whore, simply Woman.

Nuclear Power, Centralized Power

Once upon a time people gathered their own fuel. This might be wood and bushes from the nearby forest, or deposits of peat or coal, but the necessary material for making fire was never far away.
By Tudor times in England there was a serious shortage of firewood, and coal began to be mined extensively and commercially.
Perhaps, more than anything, it was this development, the use of coal, and the commercialization of fuel, that was the key moment in England's path towards the Industrial Revolution. For it was King Coal and the existence of a commercial society with independent and engaged producers that sparked the mechanical discoveries that created the modern world.
Fuel production was taken out of the immediate sphere of the individual and the family and the village. From now on fuel needed to be bought.
As time went by, coal mines were less and less profitable, and the miners themselves wanted more money. Miners, being the ones who produced the fuel, also gained a power to paralyse the country with their strikes.
It was unacceptable to Authority that groups of working men should share in their power.
The State will never accept alternative centres of power. Be it trade union power, local power, ecclesiastical power, individual power, it is only tolerated on sufferance till the day it can be destroyed. Destruction of independent life is the aim of the State. The hierarchical imperative requires conquest, demands destruction.
The history of the twentieth century is the history of the destruction of working class power, and the history of fuel in England is no exception to this.
Oil was a godsend to the Hierarchs. After the labour troubles of the Edwardian era, the First Lord of the Admiralty, Churchill, changed the Royal Navy from coal power to oil.
In the Sixties coal began to be replaced by North Sea Gas in homes.
The production of fuel was kept ever further from the grasp of ordinary people.
At the same time Nuclear Power was introduced.
Nuclear Power is the ultimate totalitarian power. It is so dangerous that it can only be organized by a permanent, unchangeable bureaucracy, and a merciless army.
With Nuclear Power, civil unrest and war become unthinkable. The centralization of power in all its meanings becomes imperative.    
The hoovering up of power into one vast desert nuclear state can only have one result.

Passivity

After years of conformity, regimentation and passivity the child becomes an adult, at least in body. If the term 'adult' means an autonomous responsible being, then few modern people reach adulthood.
Childhood is an age in which we allow the person to be self indulgent, though in autonomous societies the child soon learns to accept certain responsibilities.
Only in modern totalitarian societies are the children given an anti-education, and experience an anti-childhood.
Instead of being allowed to roam and explore they are cooped up and supervised. Their training is in passivity and obedience.
So when the children reach maturity they are not expected to step out into the world of work and responsibility, they are not expected to learn independence, nor to seek a mate and set up their own home.
Instead they are expected to stay at school, on and on, acquiring ever more debt till eventually they take their place in the service economy with a low paid, low grade job.
Somehow, the adults know that this is not how things should be.
Deep inside they know that there is a world outside the battery cage.
In their hearts they want love, family, children, as people have ever done.
But now they are pointed back to themselves. They are to blame, they are told.
Perhaps the fault lies in their body shape.
Perhaps it is because they are bipolar, depressed or something like that.
Through the years of waiting and inertia in school, the regimentation and repetitiveness of the hierarchical workplace, they have forgotten how to be pro active.
So they grab a beer, pop a pill, smoke some dope, and switch on the screen which tells them that they live in the best of all possible worlds, a Democracy, and that if they are not shiny happy people, then it must be their fault, that they must not sit, eat, drink, smoke, poke.
It is they who are sick, they are told, not the world they live in, the world of the self.
Above us only sky, within us only hell.

Psychology, The Theology Of Idolatry

In a world without God there is no need for Theology. There is no need to know God in a world from which He has been expelled.
In a world of Humanism, Theology has been replaced by Psychology,  Sin by Sickness, Repentance by Therapy, the embodiment of the Holy One in the bread and the wine, by the redemption of the pill, washed down by a glass of water.
In a world of the Self, the Humanist goes mad.
Ever since the beginning of humanity people have gazed around themselves in awe and wonder, conscious of a Being infinitely greater than themselves. 
The oldest preoccupation of mankind is to know this Being.
And so, people of old studied the stars, looking as far beyond themselves as they possibly could.
The oldest preoccupation of Mankind is knowing God.
But the oldest preoccupation of Power is to keep people passive, afraid, inward looking, cowering in the shadows.
And so temples, churches, cathedrals, mosques were introduced by the Powerful in an attempt to limit and restrain Mankind's yearning for God. Faith was institutionalized. Faith was replaced by a moral code, drawn up to bolster Power.
For many hundreds of years the thugs and the kings, the priests, the Brahmins, the Buddhas,  the imams, have fought the battle for atheism to shield the people from the power of the Almighty.
They see victory in their sights. Who seeks God these days? In churches and mosques worshippers appear more preoccupied with their own conduct than with looking to know God.
It is all about the Self.
I, me, and Myself, the beginning, the middle and the end, the Holy Trinity of the Madman, is the greatest wonder for modern Humanity.
To gaze at our navels in awesome wonder is our greatest thrill.
The preoccupation of regimented humanity is to know Oneself.
Psychology is the science of the Worship of Man, the theology of idolatry.

But Were I Loved

RP  writes: OK, so I mocked Tennyson and his Charge of the Light Brigade, but I like this one.

'But were I loved, as I desire to be,
What is there in the great sphere of the earth,
And range of evil between death and birth,
That I should fear, - if I were loved by thee?
All the inner, all the outer world of pain
Clear Love would  pierce and cleave, if thou wert mine,
As I have heard that, somewhere in the main,
Fresh-water springs come up through bitter brine.
'Twere joy, not fear, clasped hand -in-hand with thee,
To wait for death - mute - careless of all ills,
Apart upon a mountain, tho' the surge
Of some new deluge from a thousand hills
Flung leagues of roaring foam into the gorge
Below us, as far on as eye could see.'

Conclusions Of The Lollards - The Pretended Power Of Absolution And The Sin Of War

9. That auricular confession which is said to be so necessary to the salvation of a man, with its pretended power of absolution, exalts the arrogance of priests and gives them  opportunity of other secret colloquies which we will not speak of; for both lords and ladies attest that, for fear of their confessors, they dare not speak the truth. and at the time of confession there is a ready occasion for assignation that is for wooing and other secret understandings leading to mortal sins. They themselves say that they are God's representatives to judge every sin, to pardon and cleanse whomsoever they please. They say that they have the keys to heaven and of hell, and can excommunicate and bless, bind and loose, at their will, so much so that for a drink or twelve pence, they will sell the blessing of heaven with charter and close warrant sealed with the common seal.
This conclusion is so notorious that it needs not any proof. It is a corollary that the pope of Rome, who has given himself out as treasurer of the whole Church, having in charge that worthy jewel of Christ's passion together with the merits of all saints in heaven, whereby he grants pretended indulgence from penalty and guilt, is a treasurer almost devoid of charity, in that, he can set free all who are prisoners in hell at his will, and cause that they should never come to that place. But in this any Christian can well see there is much in secret falsehood hidden away in our Church.

10. That manslaughter in war or by pretended law of justice for a temporal cause, without spiritual revelation, is expressly contrary to the New Testament, which indeed is the law of grace and full of mercies. This conclusion is openly proved by the examples of Christ's preaching here on earth, for he specially taught a man to love his enemies, and to show them pity, and not to slay them. The reason is this, that for the most part, when men fight, after the first blow, charity is broken. And whoever dies without charity goes the straight road to hell. And beyond this we know well that no clergyman can by Scripture or lawful reason remit the punishment of death for one mortal sin and not for another; but the law of mercy, which in the New Testament prohibits all manner of manslaughter, for in the Gospel: 'It was said unto them of old time, 'Thou shalt not kill.'
The corollary is that it is indeed robbery of poor folk when lords get indulgences from punishment and guilt: for those who aid their army to kill a Christian people in distant lands for temporal gain, just as we too have seen soldiers who run into heathendom to get them a name for the slaughter of men; much more do they deserve ill thanks from the King of Peace, for by our humility and patience was the faith multiplied, and Jesus Christ hates and threatens men who fight and kill, when He says: 'He who smites with the sword shall perish with the sword.'