society of the spectacle is one of the last books i would recommend to anyone, let alone to people who are only beginning to learn about marxism.
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"The exploited are not carriers of any positive project, be it even the classless society (which all too closely resembles the productive set up). Capital is their only community. They can only escape by destroying everything that makes them exploited...Capitalism has not created the conditions of its overcoming in communism-the famous bourgeoisie forging the arms of its own extinction-but of a world of horrors." -At Daggers Drawn
"Our strategy is therefore the following: to establish and maintain a series of centers of desertion, or poles of secession, of rallying points. For runaways. For those who leave. A series of places where we can escape from the influence of a civilization that is headed for the abyss." -Tiqqun, Call
society of the spectacle is one of the last books i would recommend to anyone, let alone to people who are only beginning to learn about marxism.
Everywhere it is the police who do the whipping and the one in rags who gets whipped. And then the people who sit smugly at their well-laden tables are surprised when someone rocks the table, overturns it, and shatters everything to fragments.
His foreign policy analysis is thorough to be sure but it reeks of moralism in that he tries to characterize everything as part of a good guy bad guy paradigm and I just don't think it's a very healthy way to look at imperialism.
It is quite advanced stuff, makes capital look not like such a headache.
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Perhaps, but the OP didn't necessarily specify difficulty level, and s/he does already have 500+ posts so I wasn't sure. Every radical should check out Society of the Spectacle though.
i dont see why. i mean i think there's a few interesting points hidden among the shit. for the most part i found it pretty pretentious and purposefully obscure though. not worth the time imo.
Everywhere it is the police who do the whipping and the one in rags who gets whipped. And then the people who sit smugly at their well-laden tables are surprised when someone rocks the table, overturns it, and shatters everything to fragments.
I've read excerpts from Society of the Spectacle...but only because it was part of required reading we had for an Art History class. What I read didn't seem that difficult, but it was quite advanced, so I had to read it a few times but nonetheless, I was able to understand most (if not all) of what I read.
Basic Texts on Socialism
Socialism Utopian and Scientific Engels
Kapital M&E
Reform or Revolution Luxemburg
Wage Labor and Capital M&E
The State and Revolution Lenin
Left Communism an Infantile Disorder Lenin
The Democratic Principle Bordiga
Where it all Went Wrong
A Revolution Betrayed Trotsky
Restoration of Capitalism in the Soviet Union Bland
Euro-Communism is Anti-Communism Hoxha
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