Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play

by James C. Scott

what success the movements enjoyed was at their most disruptive, most confrontational, least organized, and least hierarchical.

The job of trade unions, parties, and even radical social movements is precisely to institutionalize unruly protest and anger.

The more highly planned, regulated, and formal a social or economic order is, the more likely it is to be parasitic on informal processes that the formal scheme does not recognize and without which it could not continue to exist,

In terms of sheer income, a good many tenant farmers were better off than smallholders, and a good many laborers were better off than small tenants.

The key (bait?) to the enthusiastic participation of the peasantry in virtually all twentieth-century revolutions has been the prospect of land ownership and the standing and independence that came with it.

Als there are psotive externalites to the state to people owninglnd

Workers in socialist Hungary stole time to make “homers”—small lathe pieces for themselves—even when they had no earthly use for them.

Me stealing pads from google

The school was in danger of being transformed into a “one-product” factory, the product being students who could pass standardized tests designed

Doesn't Go nearly far enouh

SAT doesn’t really measure intelligence or predict success in college,

But it doestho

Once the individual villagers had made such a gesture, they typically became committed to helping the refugees for the duration.

Seems dangerous for the refugees