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 VaneigemIn the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.
Raoul VaneigemEach component of the organism, like the individual in the social body, possesses the capacity for enjoyment of the self through sharing with others.
Raoul VaneigemI do not dream of a gentle revolution. My passion runs to the violence of supersession, the ferocity of a life that renounces nothing.
Raoul VaneigemPurchasing power is a license to purchase power. The old proletariat sold its labour power in order to subsist; what little leisure time it had was passed pleasantly enough in conversations, arguments, drinking, making love, wandering, celebrating and rioting. The new proletarian sells his labour power in order to consume. When heโs not flogging himself to death to get promoted in the labour hierarchy, heโs being persuaded to buy himself objects to distinguish himself in the social hierarchy. The ideology of consumption becomes the consumption of ideology.
Raoul Vaneigem