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Alfredo M. Bonanno Quotes

1937–2023

Alfredo Maria Bonanno (4 March 1937 – 6 December 2023) was a theorist of contemporary insurrectionary anarchism.

Also known as: Alfredo Bonanno, Alfredo Maria Bonanno

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We are all concerned with the revolutionary problem of how and what to produce, but nobody points out that producing is a revolutionary problem. If production is at the root of capitalist exploitation, to change the mode of production would merely change the mode of exploitation.

Armed Joy (1977)

The neutralisation of the individual is a constant practice in capital’s reified totality. The flattening of opinions is a therapeutic process, a death machine. Production cannot take place without this flattening in the spectacular form of capitalism.

Armed Joy (1977)

The search for joy is therefore an act of will, a firm refusal of the fixed conditions of capital and its values. The first of these refusals is that of work as a value. The search for joy can only come about through the search for play.

Armed Joy (1977)

When we say the time is not ripe for an armed attack on the State we are pushing open the doors of the mental asylum for the comrades who are carrying out such attacks; when we say it is not the time for revolution we are tightening the cords of the straightjacket; when we say these actions are objectively a provocation we don the white coats of the torturers.

Armed Joy (1977)

These people cannot comprehend that it would be possible to not produce any surplus value, and that one could also refuse to do so. That it is possible to assert one’s will to not produce, so struggle against both the bosses’ economic structures and the ideological ones that permeate the whole of Western thought.

Armed Joy (1977)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alfredo M. Bonanno (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.