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introduces Blanqui.
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he still attempt, how could he still want to apply
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the situation after so many betrayals, losses and
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will be able to whisper about him. Or he will triumph,
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will be your obsession; it will be your possibility that
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The me has always left me cold.4 This is
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to unleash. And this redoubled the din. He who does
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their turn circulated rumors, he must expect to see
them become exaggerated, then dry up into thin
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to the metaphysicians; the here-and-now is our
only starting point, and what we can do
practically is our only serious goal. If the state 15. A
of things is untenable, it is not because of this detournement
or that, but because I am powerless within of a famous
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and action. Remain firm in moments of ebb, Vaneigem: People
when one must start again, alone, from the who talk about
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Such a way of being can find no excuse struggle without
in the eyes of those for whom life is only a referring explicitly
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with this Blanquist way of being, resentment life, without
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security corridors of bad faith, stupidity and love and positive
contentment; it announces the banning of in the referral of
the monster that seems to be in the process constraint, have
corpses in their
of extricating itself from the human herd.
mouths. A great
deal could be
But when a sincere man, leaving aside the fantastic said about this
mirage of the programs and the mists of the Kingdom detournement:
of Utopia, leaves the [romantic] novel to enter 1. it removes love
reality; when he speaks seriously and practically -- from the subversive
Disarm the bourgeoisie, arm the people: these are equation; 2. it
re-territorializes
the first necessities, the only signs of the health of the a remark from
revolution -- oh! then indifference vanishes and a Vaneigem, whom
long howl of fury resounds from one end of France Guy Debord once
to the other. Sacrilege! Patricide! Hydrophobia! criticized for his
There is rioting; the furies are unleashed upon Blanquism (see
that man; he is condemned to the infernal gods letter to Mustapha
Khayati dated 13
for having modestly spelled out the first words of November 1965);
common sense.
3. it reminds us of
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Marxism, we categorically demand that one does not
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one does not come to discuss with us the scarecrow
of certain absurd procedures applied by such and
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He who becomes absorbed in a destiny finds
himself on equal footing with those who share it.
The experience of friendship is the sweetest effect
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affection and great sacrifices like a conquest; it is an
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heading of the romantic cesspool, friendship belongs
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which the horizon of the world does not disappear.
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personal, but poses political requirements and
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belong to each other in a free state, that is to say,
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foresees the dangers of secession that friendship
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has the chance to orient itself against such a world,
against such a society. To speak in blunt terms: today,
all friendship is in some way at war with the imperial
order or it is only a lie.
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compost in the suspended life of the metropolises,
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experiences that float, mute, unwrittable and empty;
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beyond the walls of an apartment and that any
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of experience expresses itself the most communally.
December 2006.23 The ship of state is taking on water
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memories. The schools on fire burn in memory of the
generations of proletarians who therein experienced
the bitter taste of timetables, work and obedience,
and incorporated the feeling of complete inferiority.
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23. PIn the
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midst of spirited
has the courage to send the army into the
protests against
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the rescinding
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of the CPE
upon returning from Algeria, massacred
(Contrat Premiere
Parisian proletarians, though the generals
Embauche).
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24. Regis
yesterday, this species of skunk calls himself
Schleicher, a
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member of Action
The imprisoned members of Action Directe
Directe, was
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sentenced to life in
minimum sentences. Regis Schleicher24 soon
prison in 1986.
Preface to
Maintenant, il faut des arms //
Dominiqu Le Nuz
Translation
NOT BORED!
friendship as a form of life //
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