In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

Privative appropriation and domination are thus originally imposed and felt as a positive right, but in the form of a negative universality. Valid for everyone, justified in everyone's eyes by divine or natural law, the right of privative appropriation is objectified in a general illusion, in a universal transcendence, in an essential law under which everyone individually manages to tolerate the more or less narrow limits assigned to his right to live and to the conditions of life in general.

Each component of the organism, like the individual in the social body, possesses the capacity for enjoyment of the self through sharing with others.

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.

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.