Kafka and Anarchism

Infoshop News - Kafka and Anarchism:

“It is a well-known fact that the strong hate he felt for his job in the insurance company, which he used to call ‘nest of dark bureaucrats.’ He could not stand the suffering of the injured/dead workers and their unfortunate widows, who were introduced in the juridical-bureaucratic labyrinth of the Workmen Insurance Company. A typical, frequently quoted sentence of his, mentioned by Max Brod, is a sharp and suggestive expression of his way of thinking: ‘How meek people are: they come to us with their supplications, instead of assaulting the office and destroying it: they come to us to ask for mercy.’ The anarchist spirit of this sentence — is clear enough to remind us of Kafka’s position for the democratic institutions. “

The source of this is supposedly something called “The revisionist Press” but the link to it comes up “file not found”


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