The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.

The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.

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.

To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection

Work is the opposite of creativity.

What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am?

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.