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The starting point of theoretical reflection is opposition negativity, struggle.
Change the World Without Taking Power (2002)
Capital acquires a dynamic of its own and the leading members of society are quite simply its most loyal servants, its most servile courtiers.
Change the World Without Taking Power (2002)
Class struggle does not take place within the constituted forms of capitalist social relations: rather the constitution of those forms is itself class struggle.
Change the World Without Taking Power (2002)
The world cannot be changed through the state. Both theoretical reflection and a whole century of bad experience tell us so.
Change the World Without Taking Power (2002)
We do not struggle as working class, we struggle against being working class, against being classified.
Change the World Without Taking Power (2002)
The collectivity is divided into two classes of people: those who, by virtue of their ownership of the means of doing, command others to do, and those who, by virtue of the fact that they are deprived of access to the means of doing, do what the others tell them to do.
Change the World Without Taking Power (2002)
Our anger is directed not just against particular happenings but against a more general wrongness, a feeling that the world is askew, that the world is in some way untrue... We know that it is true, but feel that it is the truth of an untrue world.
Change the World Without Taking Power (2002)
Under capitalism, subjectivity can only exist antagonistically, in opposition to its own objectification. To treat the subject as already emancipated, as most mainstream theory does, is to endorse the present objectification of the subject as subjectivity, as freedom.
Change the World Without Taking Power (2002)
If domination is always a process of armed robbery, the peculiarity of capitalism is that the person with the arms stands apart from the person doing the robbery, merely supervising that the robbery conforms with the law.
Change the World Without Taking Power (2002)
Power, for those without the means of commanding others, is frustration. The existence of power-to as power-over means that the vast majority of doers are converted into the done-to, their activity transformed into passivity, their subjectivity into objectivity.
Change the World Without Taking Power (2002)
When we write or when we read, it is easy to forget that the beginnings is not the word, but the scream. Faced with the mutilation of human lives by capitalism, a scream of sadness a scream of horror, a scream of anger, a scream of refusal: NO. The starting point of theoretical reflection is opposition negativity, struggle.
Change the World Without Taking Power (2002)