When we understand that privileged people derive material benefits from the exploitation of oppressed people, and that this means we benefit from the… - Peter Gelderloos

Oppressive social hierarchies exist and replicate themselves in the behavior of all subjects and must be overcome internally as well as externally.

Pacifism simply does not resonate in people’s everyday realities, unless those people live in some extravagant bubble of tranquility from which all forms of civilization’s pandemic reactive violence have been pushed out by the systemic and less visible violence of police and military forces.

The contradiction in ostensibly revolutionary pacifism is that revolution is never safe, but to the vast majority of its practitioners and advocates, pacifism is about staying safe, not getting hurt, not alienating anyone, not giving anyone a bitter pill to swallow.