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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.

— Alfredo M. Bonanno Armed Joy (1977)

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By abolishing the ethic of production you enter revolutionary reality directly.

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Physical death, so much a preoccupation in the death world, is less mortifying than what is peddled as life.

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The rebellion of the exploited is never terrorism.

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If production is at the root of capitalist exploitation, to change the mode of production would merely change the mode of exploitation.

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A transitory acceptance of the guillotine leads to its institutionalisation.

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