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"Extermination or communism is the choice—but this communism must be more than just the sharing of wealth (who wants all this shit?)—it must inaugurate a whole new way of working together."
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Guattari & Negri, “Communists Like Us”
“who wants all this shit?”
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I tend not to like Guattari at all but this, this I like
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"The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save - the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour - your capital. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life - the greater is the store of your estranged being."
- Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts (1844)
"You know, our goal should be a society without classes!"
- Elaine Benes
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David Harvey’s Companion:
"Our blindness to the results of systemic violence is perhaps most clearly perceptible in debates about communist crimes. Responsibility for communist crimes is easy to allocate: we are dealing with subjective evil, with agents who did wrong. We can even identify the ideological sources of the crimes - The Communist Manifesto, Rosseau, even Plato. But when one draws attention to the millions who died as a result of capitalist globalization, from the tragedy of Mexico in the sixteenth century through to the Belgian Congo holocaust a century ago, responsibility is largely denied. All this seems to have just happened as the result of an ‘objective’ process, which nobody planned or executed and for which there was no ‘Capitalist Manifesto’ (The one who came closest to writing it was Ayn Rand)"
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Slavoj Žižek, Violence
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Yup. Yup yup yup. Violence is one of his best not-theoretically-hyperfocused books.
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Paralipo(e)mena: [T]he notion that Marxism is itself a kind of religion is one of the...
[T]he notion that Marxism is itself a kind of religion is one of the principal arguments of the anti-Communist arsenal; the idea, no doubt, is that it is shamefaced religion, a religion which does not wish to know its own name. Yet it has always seemed to me a peculiar reproach, one which cuts…
