بردگی ما (پائینی ها)آزادی آنها(بالائی )هاست
وفقر و فلاکت ما ثروت و دارائی آنها
"I have been thinking about the Ranters. They were a radical sect that surfaced during the English Revolution (1640-1660). They opposed the authority of lords and gentry, rich merchants and enriched clergy. Without stretching it too far, we can suggest that the Ranters were political cousins to the Levellers and Diggers. Despite their name, they sought to lay rest all wrath and contention. Yet they confronted class oppression, the struggle--we would say today--between the 1% and the 99%.
It was Laurence Clarkson, a leading Ranter, who wrote in 1647: "For who are the oppressors, but the nobility and gentry; and who are oppressed, if not the yeoman, the farmer, the tradesman, and the labourer? . . .It is naturally inbred in the major part of the nobility and gentry to judge the poor [to be] but fools, and themselves [to be] wise, and therefore when you the commonality call a parliament, they are confident such must be chosen that are noblest and richest...but reason affirms these are not your equals, neither are [the rich aware] of the burden that lies upon you. For indeed: your slavery is their liberty, your poverty is their prosperity."
Let's repeat that last line: "your slavery is their liberty, your poverty is their prosperity."[The Verso Book of Dissent, p. 22]
Michel Parentiمایکل پارنتی
"I have been thinking about the Ranters. They were a radical sect that surfaced during the English Revolution (1640-1660). They opposed the authority of lords and gentry, rich merchants and enriched clergy. Without stretching it too far, we can suggest that the Ranters were political cousins to the Levellers and Diggers. Despite their name, they sought to lay rest all wrath and contention. Yet they confronted class oppression, the struggle--we would say today--between the 1% and the 99%.
It was Laurence Clarkson, a leading Ranter, who wrote in 1647: "For who are the oppressors, but the nobility and gentry; and who are oppressed, if not the yeoman, the farmer, the tradesman, and the labourer? . . .It is naturally inbred in the major part of the nobility and gentry to judge the poor [to be] but fools, and themselves [to be] wise, and therefore when you the commonality call a parliament, they are confident such must be chosen that are noblest and richest...but reason affirms these are not your equals, neither are [the rich aware] of the burden that lies upon you. For indeed: your slavery is their liberty, your poverty is their prosperity."
Let's repeat that last line: "your slavery is their liberty, your poverty is their prosperity."[The Verso Book of Dissent, p. 22]
Michel Parentiمایکل پارنتی
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