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Saturday, March 03, 2018

"Taking power implies taking it away from its holders, not by occupying their posts but by making it permanently impossible for them to keep their machinery of domination running. Revolution is first and foremost the irreversible destruction of this machinery. It implies a form of collective practice capable of bypassing and superseding it through the development of an alternative network of relations."

Andre Gorz, 1980.

2 comments:

Mudpuddle said...

i don't know about that... it seems to me that you'd want to keep the machinery, and just change the operator(s)...

CyberKitten said...

That's assuming that the system, the machinery, isn't the problem in the first place. Changing the driver of a runaway train doesn't really solve anything.