Revolution is therefore not only necessary because it is the only way to overthrow the ruling class, it is also necessary because only a revolution will allow the class that overthrows the other to sweep away all the rottenness of the old system that sticks to it and to become capable of founding society on new foundations. (Marx)
The fight against domination and discrimination is therefore the ultimate waste product of reformism. It calls for access for all to positions of power and to commodities, even the most alienating ones. This “walking” feminism does not invite women or homosexuals to change society, but to succeed in it. (Tomjo)
This desire to marginalize the concept of class is, in the long term, part of the societal left under postmodern influence, with a clear perspective of recoding the struggle for emancipation based solely on “dominated identities” and by “sidelining the discussion” – as Bourdieu said – of the question of “class”, the one that makes it possible to understand that, to be dominated, one is not dominated in the same way depending on whether one comes from here or there. (Freddy Gomez)
The modern woman, equal to the obsolete man, does not go up, she goes down the ladder of freedom. As the century progressed, the emancipation of women developed in the opposite direction to female difference. Just as the development of democracy went in the opposite direction to personal freedoms. Liberation lay in difference. The conquest of freedom, marked with the seal of difference, led to another interrupted path. The women’s revolution is one of the twentieth century’s failed revolutions. (Mario Tronti)
In the face of emergency plans and crisis situations, I exercise my right to naivety to think that the world exists, that life is not an abstraction. I exercise my only strength, my crumb of strength, that of shifting the order of sentences, the order of things, the order of words in the sentence. Anarchy is a solitude that is not afraid to invent its own language, a climatic knowledge of silent upheavals. The air current is its work. It mingles with the living – shipwrecked ash on the burning tarmac (…) Just the insolent matter from which I draw my form. Not, I think therefore I am, but I am therefore I think. (Natanaële Chatelain)
Through this foreign mediator, man, instead of being the mediator of man himself, perceives his will, his activity, his relationship with others as a power independent of himself and others. He is at the height of servitude. It is not surprising that this mediator is transformed into a true god, because the mediator truly reigns over the things for which he serves as an intermediary. His worship becomes an end in itself. Objects, isolated from this mediator, have lost their value. He is the mediation between the productions of men, but an alienated mediation, the generic activity of man separated from man. (On Money – Marx)
Money as a social form of wealth is incompatible with any community that regulates its own affairs. (Jappe)
The only sign by which the utility of products was recognized was that there were buyers—reasonable or stupid, it didn’t matter. (William Morris)
Capitalism will not only produce economic injustices; given its law of accumulation, its imperative of growth-or-death, which derive from competition in the market itself, it will certainly destroy social life. There can be no compromise with this social order. (Murray Bookchin)
There are many who had accepted that humanity was organized like a machine for crushing lives, and who today are rebelling, at least verbally, against the runaway of this machine. (Bourlier)
Everything that is and to which we so obviously adapt is no longer offering any way out. (Michel Surya)
Translated by TerKo with the help of a free translation tool.
Rebound:
- Quotes notebook: Society No. 40
- Quotes notebook: Society No. 41
- Quotes notebook: The unconscious and society