The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.
Raoul VaneigemWho wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?
Raoul VaneigemThe millions of human beings who were shot, tortured, starved, treated like animals and made the object of a conspiracy of ridicule, can sleep in peace in their communal graves, for at least the struggle in which they died has enabled their descendants, isolated in their air-conditioned apartments, to believe, on the strength of their daily dose of television, that they are happy and free. The Communards went down, fighting to the last, so that you too could qualify for a Caribbean cruise.
Raoul Vaneigem