Neoliberals were not only clueless about the extent to which markets never really worked the way they described in their ideal. They were also clueless about the political, social, cultural, and theological ramifications of a radically marketized world in which we have not justice, not democracy, but only winners and losers.
Stop fighting for rights to things. Take the things.
They are forcing us to be criminals in order to survive. They have cut off forms of subsistence and legal access to reproduction so drastically that it is no longer possible to survive without falling into illegality.
If you meet Buddha on a yacht, kill him.
No one in the whole world, except a few people here and there, acknowledge that this is a genocide of the Holocaust type. Why not? Because no one is willing to see the Nazi when he looks in the mirror.
Much of the debate on the left is about which is the right model of politics. But good activists are agnostic. They don’t have a theory of politics that is used in all places and at all times.
Emotion is the fabric of our cultural thought and political action across the board, not just on the right. It’s also on the left. It’s a common language.
“Why do you want to read other’s books when there is the book of yourself?”
Oft haben Menschen Angst vor Macht, vor der Regierung, vor herrschenden Meinungen. Aber wenn sie nie jemanden sehen, der keine Angst hat, werden sie Mut nicht lernen und ihre Meinung nicht wirklich ändern. Deshalb muss Mut sichtbar sein.
LUDWIG: Na sag mir mal, du bist also Anarchist?
KARL: Hör mir zu, was ich dir sage, und wenn meine Ausführungen dir richtig erscheinen, dann kannst du daraus lernen … Ja, ich bin Anarchist … nun, was dann?
