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In the illusory world of commodities, play is also an illusion. We imagine we are playing, while all we are really doing is monotonously repeating the roles assigned to us by capital.

— 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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