Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities. Elements of Refusal (1988)
Logically, humanity itself will also become a domesticate of this order as the world of production processes us as much as it degrades and deforms every other natural system. Elements of Refusal (1988)
To wonder what was so radical about a movement which seemed to demand "only" the cessation of fraudulent work, is to fail to perceive the inner truth of the valid assumption, made on every side, of the connection between frame-breaking and sedition. As if the fight by the producer for the integrity of his work-life can be made without calling the whole of capitalism into question. The demand for the cessation of fraudulent work necessarily becomes a cataclysm, an all-or-nothing battle insofar as it is pursued; it leads directly to the heart of the capitalist relationship and its dynamic. Elements of Refusal (1988)
Agriculture has been and remains a “catastrophe” at all levels, the one which underpins the entire material and spiritual culture of alienation now destroying us. Liberation is impossible without its dissolution Elements of Refusal (1988)