Raoul Vaneigem quotes

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As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life. As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.
The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct ... - MORE The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us instead into a poverty of abundance, making alienation all the more intolerable as each convenience promises liberation and turns out to be only one more burden. We are condemned to slavery to the means of liberation.
In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions,... - MORE In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of life a thousand times a day until the mind and body are exhausted, until that death which is not the end of life but the final saturation with absence.
Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out. - MORE Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, ma... - MORE The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortificat... - MORE Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.
Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.
Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom? Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?
To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects. To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.
Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it. Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it.
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