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Contributions to the Revolutionary Struggle - Intended to Be Discussed, Corrected, and Principally Put Into Practice Without Delay
Contributions to the Revolutionary Struggle - Intended to Be Discussed, Corrected, and Principally Put Into Practice Without Delay | Raoul Vaneigem
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A wonderfully erudite, short treatise, originally written in 1974, and published under the name Ratgeb. "So you see, you have had your fill of controls and constraints, and of the cop who is a living reminder that you are nothing and the State everything...and a bellyful of the system that creates the conditions for illegal crime and legalizes the crimes of the magistrates who repress it. And already you are fighting for a harmonization of passions and interests (through the elimination of the interests of the spectacle and its economy) and for the reorganization of relations between individuals through abundant intercourse and the free diffusion of desires..."
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"Haven't you ever felt like giving up reading the newspapers and putting your foot through the television?
In that case, you have come to appreciate that the press, radio and television are the crassest vehicles for the lie...We subsist amid a forest of images with which we are driven to identify. We act less & less for ourselves and more & more as puppets of abstractions that direct us according to the laws of profit and power."
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"Has it ever happened that, outside your place of work, you have felt the same distaste and weariness as you do inside the factory?
In that case, you have come to understand that the factory is all around us...It is the time and space of our everyday subsistence. It is becoming accustomed to repetitive moves and suppressed emotions."
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I'm working hard to not just transcribe whole pages from this 1974 Situationist tract.

Bookwomble I've just read a story called "The Circle" by Moinul Ahsan Saber in "The Book of Dhaka" that could have been inspired by this observation of Vaneigem's. Neat when seemingly disparate reading experiences converge ? 1d
TheBookHippie I love it when books collide in reference. 12h
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"Haven't you ever, just once, felt like turning up late for work or felt like slipping away from work early?
In that case, you have realised that time spent working is time doubly lost because it is time doubly wasted - as time which might be more agreeably spent making love, or day-dreaming, on pleasure or on one's hobbies: time which one would otherwise be free to spend however one wished - as time spent wearing us down physically & nervously."

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