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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. The old proletariat sold its labour power in order to subsist; what little leisure time it had…

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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be…
The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.
People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination.…
As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.
Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete.
In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a…
Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all…
Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification,…
In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.
We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free…

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. The old proletariat sold its labour power in order to subsist; what little leisure… — Raoul Vaneigem

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