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"Basic Banalities I" Internationale Situationiste 7 (April 1962)"Basic Banalities II" Internationale Situationiste (Paris, Jan. 1963)The Revolution of Everyday Life (1967, trans. 1983)

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People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.

Raoul Vaneigem

Raoul Vaneigem (b. 1934), Belgian situationist philosopher. The Revolution of Everyday Life, ch. 1, sct. 4 (1967, trans. 1983).

The last words were graffitied onto walls in Paris during the 1968 revolt.

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