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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.

— Alfredo M. Bonanno Armed Joy (1977)

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

Armed Joy (1977)

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

Armed Joy (1977)

The rebellion of the exploited is never terrorism.

Of the Terrorism of Some Idiots and Other Matters (1979)

A transitory acceptance of the guillotine leads to its institutionalisation.

Armed Joy (1977)

Remunerated joy, weekends off or annual holidays paid by the boss is like paying to make love. It seems the same but there is something lacking.

Armed Joy (1977)

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