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Assata #Shakur #freedom

[Orson #Welles Narrates #Plato's Cave Allegory, #Kafka's Parable, and Freedom River | Open Culture](https://www.openculture.com/2011/12/orson_welles_narrates_three_animated_films.html)

"And in point of fact, something new occurs with the rise of the #bourgeoisie: the disappearance of #enjoyment as an end, the new conception of the conjunction according to which the sole end is abstract #wealth and its realization in forms other than #consumption…But the bourgeois field of immanence—as delimited by the conjunction of the decoded flows, the negation of any transcendence or exterior limit, and the effusion of anti-production inside production itself—institutes an unrivaled #slavery, an unprecedented #subjugation: there are no longer even any #masters, but only #slaves commanding other slaves; there is no longer any need to burden the animal from the outside, it shoulders its own burden…the #bourgeois sets the example, he absorbs surplus value for ends that, taken as a whole have nothing to do with his own enjoyment: more utterly enslaved than the lowest of slaves, he is the first servant of the ravenous machine, the beast of the reproduction of #capital internalization of the infinite debt…In short, the theoretical opposition is not between two classes, for it is the very notion of class, insofar as it designates the ‘negative’ of codes, that implies there is only one #class."

- #Deleuze and #Guattari, Anti-Oedipus

"Men’s only hope lies in a #revolutionary becoming: the only way of casting off their shame or responding to what is intolerable."

- Gilles #Deleuze

[Gilles Deleuze in conversation with Antonio Negri](https://www.generation-online.org/p/fpdeleuze3.htm)

He dealt with human beings in such extreme situations not because he was interested in the sordid and diseased aspects of life but because he concentrated on the essential aspects of human experience. The subject matter of so much of the world’s literature–the social relations between individuals, their manners and possessions, their struggles for rank and position, or the conquest of sexual objects–appeared to #Beckett as mere external trappings of existence, the accidental and superficial aspects that mask the basic problems and the basic anguish of the human condition. The basic questions for Beckett seemed to be these: How can we come to terms with the fact that, without ever having asked for it, we have been thrown into the world, into being? And who are we; what is the true nature of our self? What does a human being mean when he says ‘I’?

Martin #Esslin

[Beckett](https://web.archive.org/web/20080705112042/http://media.ucsc.edu/classes/thompson/beckett.html)

"What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an #alien, a #stranger. His #exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of #absurdity."

- Albert #Camus, The Myth of #Sisyphus.

#anarchism

What is an #anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the #responsibility of choice.

Ursula #LeGuin

#anarchism

#anarchism #anarchy is #solidarity

#anarchism

"Χάρη στην έμφυτα #ανταγωνιστική φύση της, η #αστική κοινωνία όχι μόνο στρέφει τους ανθρώπους τον ένα ενάντια στον άλλο, αλλά κι ολόκληρη την ανθρωπότητα ενάντια στον φυσικό κόσμο. Η αντίληψη ότι ο άνθρωπος πρέπει να κυριαρχήσει πάνω στο #περιβάλλον, προέρχεται άμεσα από την κυριαρχία του ανθρώπου πάνω στον άνθρωπο. Ο εκφυλισμός του περιβάλλοντος είναι άμεσα συνδεδεμένος με τον εκφυλισμό της υπάρχουσας κοινωνικής δομής. Οι ανάγκες κατασκευάζονται από τα ΜΜΕ για να δημιουργήσουν μια ζήτηση για ολότελα άχρηστα εμπορεύματα, που το καθένα έχει σχεδιαστεί προσεκτικά για να φθαρεί μετά από μια προκαθορισμένη χρονική περίοδο. Η λεηλασία του ανθρώπινου πνεύματος από την #αγορά μπορεί να παραλληλιστεί με τη λεηλασία του πλανήτη από το #κεφάλαιο. Η #ιδιοκτητική κοινωνία, η #κυριαρχία, η #ιεραρχία και το #κράτος, σ’ όλες τους τις μορφές είναι εντελώς ασυμβίβαστες με την επιβίωση της #βιόσφαιρας. Η #οικολογική δράση ή είναι επαναστατική δράση ή δεν είναι απολύτως τίποτα."

- Murray #Bookchin – Η #οικολογία και η επαναστατική σκέψη

"Another concept closely linked to #melancholy is that of #depression: in its most elementary form, the depressed subject has severed his links with the universe of intentions and meanings, his embeddedness and active participation in intersubjective activity; as #Heidegger would have put it, what ‘depression’ suspends is the attitude of active engagement, of #care [#sorge]. This link with Heidegger is further substantiated by the changed status of #temporality: according to Heidegger, in ‘care’, past, present and future are interwoven (the subject’s present consists in the way he projects his future out of his being-thrown, through his past, into his determinate situation), while in depression, #time is reduced to a uniform, #monotonous #duration."

- S. #Zizek - The Plague of Fantasies.

" Voll Verdienst, doch dichterisch, wohnet der Mensch auf dieser Erde

Γεμάτος μόχθο, κι όμως ποιητικά, ο άνθρωπος κατοικεί τούτη τη γη"

- Friedrich #Hölderlin, Σ’ ευφρόσυνο Γλαυκό … Αρτος και Οινος, στο Ελεγείες, Υμνοι και άλλα ποιήματα, Αγρα 1996, μτφ. Στ.Νικολαϊδου, σελ. 188-189

"#Holloway does however, accept #Negri and #Hardt”s argument that #revolution can no longer be conceived of in terms of seizing #state #power. The Power that needs to be negated lies “in the fragmentation of social relations” rather than any “particular person of institution.” (167-75)"

[#Fetishism and Its Negations: On John Holloway and Theodor Adorno By David #Black](http://www.thehobgoblin.co.uk/journal/h4holloway.html)

Anti-globalisation has, thus, to mean complete #democratisation so as to make all social forces accountable to human #needs. In sum, the demand for a new #democratically constituted #regulation of #capital should be taken seriously. Though, it should be deepened and not restricted to legitimate the social engineering of discipline. It should first of all be taken on in the tradition of Enlightenment thought: Doubt everything! Second, it should be taken to its logical conclusion: the democratic organisation of socially necessary labour by the associated producers themselves, that is, the utopia of the society of the free and equal that #Marx summed up with one word: #communism.

[Werner #Bonefeld on Globalisation](http://www.thehobgoblin.co.uk/journal/h52003_Bonefeld.htm)

Further, the critique of #globalisation fails if it is merely a critique of speculative capital and that is, a critique for productive accumulation. It was the crisis of productive accumulation that sustained the divorce of monetary accumulation from productive accumulation (Bonefeld and Holloway, 1995). The critique of #speculation has to be a critique of the #capitalist form of social reproduction. Without such a critique of capital, the critique of speculation is reactionary. It summons the idea of #finance and #banks and #speculators as merchants of #greed. In the past, such views underpinned modern anti-semitism and its idea of a community of blood and soil (Bonefeld, 1997). The fact that #Nazism espoused ‘industry’ and rejected what it saw as vampire like finance, should be sufficient to highlight the rotten character of such a critique of globalisation.

[Werner #Bonefeld on Globalisation](http://www.thehobgoblin.co.uk/journal/h52003_Bonefeld.htm)

"All #emancipation is a return of the human world and human relationships to humans themselves. Political emancipation is the reduction of man, on the one hand, to a member of bourgeois society, an egoistic and independent individual, on the other hand, to a citizen of the state, a moral person. Not until the real individual man has taken the abstract citizen back into himself and, as an individual man, has become a species-being in his empirical life, in his individual work and individual relationships, not until man recognises and organises his ‘forces propres’ as social forces and thus no longer separates social forces from himself in the form of political forces, not until then will human emancipation be completed."

- Karl #Marx (1964) Zur #Judenfrage, in MEW 1, Dietz, Berlin, p. 370.

"… the #everyday #struggle over the #production and #appropriation of #surplus_value in every individual #workplace and every local community is the basis of the #class_struggle on a global scale."

[Shift Magazine » Interview issue 5 » Interview with Werner #Bonefeld](https://web.archive.org/web/20110814174256/http://shiftmag.co.uk/?p=260)

"#Humans have evolved #gregariously. We delight in each other’s company; we #care for one another. #Altruism is built into us. We have brilliantly deciphered some of the patterns of Nature. We have sufficient motivation to work together and the ability to figure out how to do it. If we are willing to contemplate nuclear war and the wholesale destruction of our emerging global society, should we not also be willing to contemplate a wholesale restructuring of our societies?"

- Carl #Sagan, Cosmos, Futura, 1987, p. 358