While all societies make their own imaginaries (institutions, laws, traditions, beliefs and behaviors), autonomous societies are those that their members are aware of this fact, and explicitly self-institute (αυτο-νομούνται). In contrast, the members of heteronomous societies attribute their imaginaries to… — Cornelius Castoriadis Copy Share Image
“Reification, the essential tendency of capitalism, can never be wholly realized. If it were, if the system were actually able to change individuals into things moved only by economic “forces,” it would collapse not in the long run, but immediately. The struggle of people against reification is, just as much as the tendency towards reification, the condition for the functioning… — Cornelius Castoriadis Copy Share
“Either history is really governed by laws, and in that case a truly human-activity is impossible, except perhaps in a technical sense; or human… — Cornelius Castoriadis Copy Share Image
Revolution does not mean torrents of blood, the taking of the Winter Palace, and so on. Revolution means a radical transformation of society's institutions.… — Cornelius Castoriadis Copy Share Image
While all societies make their own imaginaries (institutions, laws, traditions, beliefs and behaviors), autonomous societies are those that their members are aware of this… — Cornelius Castoriadis Copy Share Image
