"Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.……" — Raoul Vaneigem
"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 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 he’s not flogging himself to death to get promoted in the labour hierarchy, he’s being persuaded to buy himself objects to distinguish himself in the social hierarchy. The ideology of consumption becomes the consumption of ideology."
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Raoul Vaneigem
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40 Quotes by Raoul Vaneigem
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Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.
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In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom…
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