Black Flame Quotes

“Anarchist and syndicalist opposition to war did not derive so much from pacifism—an opposition to violence in any form—but from a class analysis. The modern military served, on the one hand, as the weapon of last resort in the maintenance of the class system; on the other hand, wars by the state were waged only to benefit the interests of the ruling classes, and offered nothing to the popular classes but conscription, regimentation, injury, and death.”
― Lucien Van Der Walt, Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism

“What exists now will one day be history; it is the duty of those who long for something better to make sure that the future is an improvement on the present.”
― Lucien Van Der Walt, Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism