We would like to participate in manifestations, in Occupies and things like that. We would like to be involved in a march. But we don't actually see ….

Leadership is another word for preparation..

You cannot have politics without building mass-movements..

I consider this a kind of neoliberalism of the Left, this rise and promotion of spontaneity above preparation..

To be a Communist or to be somebody who believes in the future is a curious thing. So you have to live with people around you, you have to be with th….

Organizing is always a relationship between the person who arrives and says 'Let's meet together' and the person who comes to the meeting..

Where there is a living memory of struggle, they have a living memory of the rebellion. Where there's no struggle afterward the rebellion is forgotte….

The Islamic State is able to raise finances through taxation, through theft of banks, and certainly through oil sales from the Omar oilfields in east….

Interestingly, what the bourgeois women's groups in India wanted to do in the nationalist period is to have the peasant women essentially follow them….

There are several studies done of peasant uprisings where the first chapter might be 'conditions in that area' and so the conditions are bad, and the….

Where there is no history of struggle after an uprising, the living memory dies..

The best intentions (of respect and tolerance) can often be annoying to those whose cultures are not in dominance: we feel that we are often zoologic….

The United States is facing serious pushback from Turkey, which is not comfortable with the view that the Islamic State is a terrorist organization..

Over the last two or so decades, there's been an increase in thinking among the Left, liberals, intellectuals in the direction of so-called spontanei….

I understand politically that uprisings take place as a combination of spontaneity and preparation, not that preparation is more important than spont….

You see, one strand...of anarchism believed that you needed to use essentially homeopathic doses of terror by assassinating people, et cetera, the so….

It is convenient for Hillary Clinton and Tony Blair to say the rise of the Islamic State has nothing to do with the Iraq War because that takes the c….

People who become important activists, they also struggle with the process of discovery..

There's a different use for different strategies..

To build a mass movement, nonviolence is indispensable..

When you are threatened, when your life is threatened, you have to fight back..