“I make you free,” so speak the Rights of Man to the laborer, “free to earn a wretched living and turn your employer into a millionaire; free to sell him your liberty for a mouthful of bread. He will imprison you ten hours or twelve hours in his workshops; he will not let you go till you are wearied to the marrow of your bones, till you have just enough strength left to gulp down your soup and sink into a heavy sleep. You have but one of your rights that you may not sell, and that is the right to pay taxes.” Paul Laufarge

"Man certainly will win against nature. And will do so thanks to a science, a technology, an administration that will not be rented out to anyone.

Before bending nature to our ends, we will have had to have bent the sinister social forces which enslave us more than millions of cubic meters of grave stones and which condemn the replies of today’s experts to great rewards and grasping profits. We must dam the floods not of water and earth, but of filthy lucre." Amadeo Bordiga

"To the average men of all countries Lenin must, indeed, seem like another Atilla, come to destroy the Rome of their well-being and prosperity, founded on slavery, blood, and robbery. But just as ancient Rome deserved its destruction, so the crimes of the world today justify and render necessary its destruction. This is, indeed, a historic necessity: no one and nothing will be able to prevent it." Maxim Gorky (Edit done by Arjuna)

Ted K has fallen

"Socialism, because it is a political parts of the oppressed class, has therefore an ideal. It groups and organizes the efforts of the individuals who wish to build on the ruins of capitalist society, based upon individual property, an ideal or hypothetical society based upon common property in the means of production." Laufarge

“We had stayed up all night — my friends and I — beneath mosque lamps hanging from the ceiling. Their brass domes were filigreed, starred like our souls; just as, again like our souls, they were illuminated by the imprisoned brilliance of an electric heart. On the opulent oriental rugs, we had crushed our ancestral lethargy, arguing all the way to the final frontiers of logic and blackening reams of paper with delirious writings”
— F.T. Marinetti
Art: What if the Silence Let you Dream? by Mark Vega

“The spectacle is a permanent opium war designed to force people to equate goods with commodities and to equate satisfaction with a survival that expands according to its own laws.”
— Guy Debord
Art: Witches Flight by Francisco Goya

“Beauty and art, no doubt, pervade all business of life like a kindly genius, and form the bright adornment of all our surroundings, both mental and material, soothing the sadness of our condition and the embarrassments of real life, killing time in entertaining fashion, and where there’s nothing to be achieved, occupying the place of what is vicious, better, at any rate, than vice.”
— G.W.F. Hegel
Artwork: Hegel by Éric Mercier Sevin

“Before us, art relied on memory, an anxious re-evocation of an Object lost (happiness, love, a landscape), and hence was nostalgic, static, charged with suffering and distance. With Futurism, instead, art is turning into art-action, which is to say, into will, optimism, aggression, possession, penetration, delight, brutal reality within art (example: onomatopoiea; —example: noise-tuners = motors), geometrical splendor of forces, projections forward. Thus, art is becoming Presence, new Object, new reality created with the abstract elements of the universe. The hands of the passéist artist used to suffer for the sake of the lost Object; our hand will twitch for the new Object to be created. That is why the new Object (the plastic complex) has miraculously appeared in your hands.” — F.T. Marinetti
Art: Benedetta Cappa, Cime arse di solitudine, 1936Museo dell’Aeronautica “Gianni Caproni”, Trento

"The spectacle presents itself as something enormously positive, indisputable and inaccessible. It says nothing more than “that which appears is good, that which is good appears. The attitude which it demands in principle is passive acceptance which in fact it already obtained by its manner of appearing without reply, by its monopoly of appearance." Guy Debord

A society that both fears and longs for death. The consequences of a species alienated from itself

Beauty is in the eye of the Beholder. And the Beholder is an asshole

The Pursuit of Happiness being a virtue under capitalism while simultaneously being its cardinal sin is not proof that happiness cannot be attained. it is proof that the Pursuit of Happiness is the right for the Petty Bourgeoisie and Bourgeoisie, while for the Worker it is a delirious dream that is ruthlessly curbed.

"To exploit living labour, capital must destroy dead labour which is still useful. Loving to suck warm young blood, it kills corpses" Amadeo Bordiga

“the bourgeois World is but an agglomeration of private Property-owners, isolated from each other, without true community.” — Aleksander Kojeve

“The Bourgeois is neither Slave nor Master; he is - being the Slave of Capital - his own Slave. It is from himself, therefore, that he must free himself.” — Aleksander Kojeve

“The opium of the people in the present world is perhaps not so much religion as it is accepted boredom. Such a world is at the mercy, it must be known, of those who provide at least the semblance of an escape from boredom. Human life aspires to the passions, and again encounters its exigencies.” — Georges Bataille
Art: via our friend Nietzschean Marxist /@/drugNietzschean on twitter