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1 " It speaks to the very nature of our domestication that we only choose resistance so long as it feels like something we can win. "
― , Blessed is the Flame: An Introduction to Concentration Camp Resistance and Anarcho-Nihilism
2 " From the shattered tools and bones of our predecessors, we craft our own weapons. Nothing is guaranteed to work, yet we attack regardless. We do so naked, having shed the rags of morality, ideology, and politics that had accumulated over time. We confront this world raw, in all its horrifying glory. "
3 " By creating conditions that demanded brute self-interest, where groups and individuals were pitted against each other for scraps of privilege, where the pain of isolation was preferable to the weight of empathy, the Nazis were able to preclude the capacity for solidarity, and thus the capacity for much resistance. "