Education is no guarantee of cooperative, communal or liberatory lives or community. Though who is doing the educating is important, what is probably more important is determining who gets what, when, why and where. People know that society is authoritarian and exploitive. Knowing, apparently, is less than half the battle. Bakunin had quite a bit to say in regards to red intelligentsia who thought their socialism was "scientific".
Kropotkin is a sweety--for an insurrectionary anarchist who advocated using explosives to assassinate the Czar (to whom he was distantly related).
"That we are Utopians is well known. So Utopian are we that we go the length of believing that the Revolution can and ought to assure shelter, food, and clothes to all--an idea extremely displeasing to middle-class citizens, whatever their party colour, for they are quite alive to the fact that it is not easy to keep the upper hand of a people whose hunger is satisfied." Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread
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Education is no guarantee of cooperative, communal or liberatory lives or community. Though who is doing the educating is important, what is probably more important is determining who gets what, when, why and where. People know that society is authoritarian and exploitive. Knowing, apparently, is less than half the battle. Bakunin had quite a bit to say in regards to red intelligentsia who thought their socialism was "scientific".
Kropotkin is a sweety--for an insurrectionary anarchist who advocated using explosives to assassinate the Czar (to whom he was distantly related).
"That we are Utopians is well known. So Utopian are we that we go the length of believing that the Revolution can and ought to assure shelter, food, and clothes to all--an idea extremely displeasing to middle-class citizens, whatever their party colour, for they are quite alive to the fact that it is not easy to keep the upper hand of a people whose hunger is satisfied."
Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread