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Pleasure and love are what motivate people to aspire toward a better world. These and other feelings aren't luxuries separate from people's material needs. They are part and parcel of the need for a full, individuated, and genuinely social life.

— Cindy Milstein Anarchism and Its Aspirations (2010)

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Anarchism appears to be the only form of libertarian socialism that speaks to the times and people's dreams.

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Power needs to be forever linked to freedom; freedom needs to be the limit placed on power.

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The beauty of the direct action movement, it could be said, is that it strives to take its own ideals to heart.

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Democracy finds its radical edge in the great revolutions of the past.

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Anarchism serves unflinchingly as a philosophy of freedom, as the nagging conscience that people and their communities can always be better.

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