p.55: At a British expert who asked him if he did not want India to reach the same development level as England, Gandhi answered "It took the entire planet to England to develop, how long will it then develop the planet for India? "
[...]-Capitalism is the most efficient system ever invented by man to ensure the infinite reproduction of hell on Earth. Except that soon disappears us with any trace of such a horror, no doubt that the time which has seen the birth and death will be judged by future generations as the most brutal, the most pretentious, most cynical and least informed of all the human history.
p.67:
In reality the state can only occur when the social structures that underlie the organization of the community have been destroyed. That is why the colonial powers have tried by all means to eradicate the culture of traditional societies whose essential characteristics prohibited Indigenous subordination of their social needs, environmental and spiritual to economic objectives in the short term, subordination, without which a modern state can not exist. This close relationship between state formation and disintegration of the self-governing community is described by Banfield's study of a rural village in southern Italy
"This village, says he was denied by the centralized bureaucracy of the Vatican to hold its own religious life. He also lost control of its education system, now in the hands of the state that built the school and pay teachers. He no longer rule the law or the order: the National Police does it. Consequently, the community, that is no longer anything, begins to break down: the organic unity of the largest extant is the family, while at higher form of cooperation has gone. In a society like this, no longer defends the interests of the group or community, except to find his personal benefit. In other words, the hope of material gain fast becoming the only reason for interest in public affairs. "
p.68: on Terror
" When the situation is thus monopolized by global power, when dealing with this formidable condensation of all functions through technocratic machinery and unique thought, what other way is there a transfer of terrorist situation? This is the system itself which created the objective conditions of this brutal retaliation. By collecting all the cards for him it forces the Other to change the rules of the game And the new rules are ferocious because the stakes are ferocious. In a system whose excess of power poses a challenge even insoluble, terrorists respond by a definitive act which trade him is also impossible. Terrorism is the act that restores an irreducible singularity to the heart of a system of generalized exchange. All the singularities (species, individuals, cultures) that have paid with their death the installation of a global circulation governed by a single power take revenge today by this terrorist situational transfer. If Islam dominated the world, terrorism would rise against Islam. For it is the world itself which resists globalization. Jean Baudrillard
p.73: Do you bring
education - the process by which the child learns to become a full member of human society-not the only principle of schooling, can be the source of serious misunderstandings. Where education is to the end that human societies means to perpetuate itself, it is to see that the first mission of the modern school and train people for jobs they will occupy in a world essentially industrial , and urban hierarchy. It says so in India when a young graduated at the end of high school, he leaves the village of his ancestors to settle in the city, he obtains his license, he moved to the big city, and when he has his doctorate, he left the country for Europe or the United States. Instead of ensuring the continuity of the community, schooling thus causing his death. And if, as you rightly pointed out, the colonial powers have used as forced mass schooling is that they have seen the most effective lever for the destruction of traditional cultures, which, as I already had occasion to say, were absolutely incompatible with the design of modern Western civilization to subject the social imperatives, environmental and spiritual solely economic objectives in the short term.
p.101:
"The reason the industry is not to create goods but profits reserved for the privileged who live by the work of others. "- William Morris
p.107:
When the workers of the 19th century fought for the advent of communism, they imagined a community of free men, equal, working with common means of production, a society without classes and no state would offer everyone the opportunity to fulfill themselves and freely express the richness of his personality. Unless therefore confuse the dictatorship of the party-state with freedom, the privileges of the nomenklatura with equality, emulation stakkhanoviste with brotherhood, and forced labor in the Gulag Archipelago with the flourishing of free creativity, no serious can not claim that such a society existed in Eastern Europe.
p.108:
In its very essence of capitalism is a system of domination and exploitation of producers based on at least three major characteristics: the profit motive to produce new wealth, the reign of the commodity and the wage, that is to say social relations of production which forced workers to dispose of their physical and intellectual abilities to those who own the means of production. Whether private contractors or state does not change the wage relation of domination. From this point of view, the fall of the Berlin Wall symbolizes not in any way the end of communism but the obvious failure of state capitalism.
[...] Contrary to popular belief, taking the Winter Palace in October 1917 was not a revolution but a coup from breaking the momentum truly revolutionary workers and peasants. For not having read the writings of Lenin, they had shown itself sufficiently bold and confident in their abilities to think, as early as February 1917, they could find their salvation in themselves, independently of parties within the soviets autoconstitués. Lenin did not entangled ways to break the momentum that his party did not control: he sent his troops to storm the Winter Palace, headquarters of the Provisional Government, a few hours before it open the Second Congress Soviet Russia was preparing to proclaim the new Soviet power base. Then he repressed labor movements and established the dictatorship of his party. Exit the proletarian revolution. Lenin and Trotsky, who had read Marx and Engels knew them, that Russia could bypass the capitalist.
"It's really something I do not understand, but why?
- We need to Marx's theory of "historical necessity" that, at every level of development of productive forces (raw materials, energy resources, work tools, scientific and technological knowledge and skills of workers ...) corresponds a certain type of social relations production (slavery, serfdom, wage labor) and, consequently, a certain type of production method is succeeding in the course of history in a logical order as inevitable as: ancient, feudal, capitalist and socialist. The author of Capital was careful to note that this company "can not exceed a jump or abolish by decree the phases of its natural development." early 20th century, just emerging from feudalism, Russia could not make the economics of capitalist phase. Convinced that the Russian bourgeoisie was incapable of achieving what was within its historic mission, Lenin instituted a state capitalism. Only when it would, according to Marxist theory, a victim of its internal contradictions, that socialism could then happen to turn. [...] It should be noted that at the end of his life, Marx give the feeling of doubt the validity of his theory of history. It also seems aware of his inability to control the use and interpretations of his writings: All I know, "he confided to his friend Engels, is that I am not a Marxist. And when the Russian Marxists in calling for the destruction of traditional rural communities and the expropriation of peasants, he will not hesitate to declare that the persistence of the mir-rural community-based independent property / community-possession is the finest opportunity that history has ever offered to a people, an element superiority over the countries enslaved by capitalism.
"If Russia is becoming a capitalist nation like the nations of Western Europe," he wrote then, it will not succeed without first turned much of her peasants into proletarians, and after that once led to the bosom of the capitalist system, it will suffer pitiless laws. "
p.114:
" Remember the colossal amount of work it took to produce the first atomic bomb. 500 000 scientists, engineers and technicians have worked for 4 years from the seed of the Apocalypse, with the complicity of 12 Nobel laureates. How did we get this shit magnificent intelligence? But any inquiry into the alleged progress may lead to an impasse. Progress justify killing the Earth ..., crushes peoples sprayed crops, killing species, devastating nature, the world's mechanized, automated people, and in the name of the hamburger and the automobile, it will be complicit in lowering the man's removal of his soul. "- Henri-Frederic Blanc
p.115:
Yes, but before man're struggling at work, you can not deny that today, thanks to the progress we just work a lot less developed countries before.
-before what? When comparing the number of hours worked in rich countries today is always the dark ages of early industrial capitalism. Do you know for example that in the Middle Ages, when there were no fewer than 141 non-working holidays, working people do little more than half of the year! And as for hunter-gatherers that proponents of modernity against their will want to save from misery, from Marshall Sahlins, they would spend on average 3-5 hours per day to produce food. The stark conclusion is that, as has been said of John Stuart Mill all processes that claim labor saving "anything that was invented in this area has never won a minute person. In fact, the amount of work per person increases with evolution, while correspondingly decreasing the amount of leisure. "In the U.S., where people work today than in any other country in the world, except South Korea and the Czech Republic, there was an average annual increase of 36 hours work over the last decade. Plenty to contradict the statement trusime by very eminent sociologists that wealth and prosperity would lead to the reduction of working time. Besides it has more and more likely, via the new media (Internet, computer and mobile phone ...) to take the time previously devoted to privacy. According Barbara Beck, Director of Human Resources at Cisco - U.S. company has announced it will now require its employees a 50% increase in productivity we should no longer seek a balance between work and family, but the Integration 2. It is understood that at the direction of Southwest Airlines, which got the idea of marrying his employees together to foster a better interpenetration of personal and professional spheres. With his club for singles wishing to meet a soulmate, the American company at the forefront social progress are no fewer than 821 pairs of employees!
p.142:
We learned to our cost that the race for productivity in agriculture is always detrimental to the nutritional quality and taste of products, conservation of soil, water quality and the air, landscape preservation, the health of producers as the consumer and living conditions and farm workers. Not to mention a good food that travels back into the atmosphere large amounts of carbon gases responsible for climate change. The so-called competition advocated by the advocates of free trade is only intended to divert an ever greater wealth produced by the farmers for the benefit of those who organize the market intermediaries, traders, wholesale producers ... I say, so-called competition, for here a while now that the market favors monopolistic concentrations at the expense of competitive practices, the goal of global firms are now less to compete among themselves and to eliminate small producers to release market share, recover cultivable and increase the pool of manpower flexible and exploited to thank you.
p.219:
As to the question of what happened to the wealth produced by 50 years of development, we find a formidable figure in the equation. A: The estimated additional annual cost to ensure the nutritional needs and basic sanitation in developing countries is estimated at 13 billion. B: The Americans and Europeans spend annually 17 billion dollars in purchases for their pets. What you're flying, on the pretext of "development", ends up in the bowl of your dogs.
p.226: The only
solution to the problem is quite the opposite in the genocide of the rich. However, if you have weapons for you, we have the numbers. And the courage of despair. We are taking by force much closer to death than you, we have ceased to be afraid: the power is on our side. Lock yourself behind bars will not guarantee your safety. From now on, you should consider yourself in a state of absolute insecurity.
To escape this trap, there is only one solution: reduce by half the current world consumption while consenting to its equal distribution among all humans. To get you must now until 2050 and enter a phase of decline of 5% per year. Then we can live in peace, and our children and our children's children after us, the only planet where we live is never given.
And you know what? With this course of frugality you rediscover happiness: less congestion, stress, noise, degrading work, obesity, heart disease, cancer, fear of being robbed, depression ... More mutual aid, lost time, happiness, feelings shared, free trade, natural landscapes, trust
found ... The 5% decrease per year imposed by rich countries of necessity-only condition now for their safety and our survival at all they will relieve the worst scourge of humanity it has never had to know: capitalism. Because growth is none other than the accumulation of wealth to produce new wealth, excluding such accumulation without end, capitalism can not exist.
p.236: We are the Vichy
capitalism. We collaborate with the enemy leaves us eat his remains, dreaming only of one thing: winning the seats us ever closer to the table to catch the best bits on the fly. But meanwhile it may be that a real strength - not the left-but rather a reversal of the order (or rather disorder) established, either by getting up in the world and these do not deceive us. They will know exactly where we stand.
p.239: Small
puzzle: given that it is unethical to take advantage of the sinking of a tanker to empty their holds at sea rotten, what has the reaction time after receipt of the fax master encrypted the owner ordering him open the floodgates? Answer: a time proportional to the dree his notice of termination, Article 8, paragraph 4 of his employment contract. Three months notice be allowed as a credit of 3 minutes. Beyond that there can be a hero, an unemployed doubled at the next stop. (Note: a captain concerned about his career and even a little run in the mechanisms of externalization of costs to heart will react even before the arrival of the fax).
[...] the proponents of capitalism called "conservatives" when no political-economic system has destroyed all the (private property, nature, living environment, social ties, traditions, communities ...) and so little retained (actually, outside the privileges of a few haves, it only keeps him same).
p.244:
"Left struggle for comfort in alienation. A simple glance at the social reform movement is enough to convince: they have never claimed a clean exchange and sacrifice, putting their point of honor to humanize the inhuman and make it attractive. Whenever the slave makes his slavery tolerable, he flies to the rescue of the master. "Vaneigem, 1967.
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