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Raoul Vaneigem quotes

Belgian Philosopher March 21, 1934

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People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth. Raoul Vaneigem
Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. The old proletariat sold its labour power in order to subsist; what little leisure time it had was passed pleasantly enough in conversations, arguments, drinking, making love, wandering, celebrating and rioting. The new proletarian sells his labour power in order to consume. When he’s not flogging himself to death to get promoted in the labour hierarchy, he’s being persuaded to buy himself objects to distinguish himself in the social hierarchy.... Raoul Vaneigem
The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry. Raoul Vaneigem
Raoul Vaneigem quote: "Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the..."
Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out. Raoul Vaneigem
Because of its increasing triviality, everyday life has gradually become our central preoccupation. No illusion, sacred or deconsecrated, collective or individual, can hide the poverty of our daily actions any longer. The enrichment of life calls inexorably for the analysis of the new forms taken by poverty, and the perfection of the old weapons of refusal. Raoul Vaneigem
Raoul Vaneigem quote: "There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life..."
There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies. Raoul Vaneigem
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live. Raoul Vaneigem
Raoul Vaneigem quote: "As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has..."
As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life. Raoul Vaneigem
The millions of human beings who were shot, tortured, starved, treated like animals and made the object of a conspiracy of ridicule, can sleep in peace in their communal graves, for at least the struggle in which they died has enabled their descendants, isolated in their air-conditioned apartments, to believe, on the strength of their daily dose of television, that they are happy and free. The Communards went down, fighting to the last, so that you too could qualify for a Caribbean cruise. Raoul Vaneigem
Raoul Vaneigem quote: "The tyrant dies smiling; for he knows that after his death..."
The tyrant dies smiling; for he knows that after his death tyranny will merely change hands, and slavery will never end. Raoul Vaneigem
The revolutionaries of 1793 were great because they dared to usurp the unitary hold of God over the government of men; the proletarian revolutionaries drew from what they were defending a greatness that they could never have seized from the bourgeois enemy? their strength derived from themselves alone. Raoul Vaneigem
The man who is walled up alive has nothing to lose; the prisoner still has hope. Hope is the leash of submission. When power's boiler is in danger of exploding, it uses its safety-valve to lower the pressure. It seems to change; in fact it only adapts itself and resolves its difficulties. Raoul Vaneigem
As soon as the leader of the game turns into a Leader, the principle of hierarchy is saved, and the Revolution sits down to preside over the execution of the revolutionaries. We must never forget that the revolutionary project belongs to the masses alone; leaders help it, Leaders betray it. Raoul Vaneigem
Raoul Vaneigem quote: "Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it."
Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it. Raoul Vaneigem
The point here is not to make an apology for terrorism, but to recognize it as an action? the most pitiful action and at the same time the most noble? which is capable of disputing and thus exposing the self-regulating mechanisms of the hierarchical social community. Raoul Vaneigem

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