There Is A Kind Of Serenity In

For A Politics Of Emancipation, The Enemy That Is To Be Feared Most Is Not Repression At The Hands Of The Established Order. It Is The Interiority Of Nihilism, And The Unbounded Cruelty That Can Come With Its Emptiness.

To Believe That The Intolerable Crime Is To Burn A Few Cars And Rob Some Shops, Whereas To Kill A Young Man Is Trivial, Is Typically In Keeping With What Marx Regarded As The Principal Alienation Of Capitalism: The Primacy Of Things Over Existence, Of Commodities Over Life And Machines Over Workers

Love And Politics Are The Two Great Figures Of Social Engagement. Politics Is Enthusiasm With A Collective; With Love, Two People. So Love Is The Minimal Form Of Communism.

Let Us Say In Passing That Since (philosophical) Remedies Are Often Worse Than The Malady, Our Age, In Order To Be Cured Of The Plato Sickness, Has Swallowed Such Doses Of A Relativist, Vaguely Skeptical, Lightly Spiritualist And Insipidly Moralist Medicine, That It Is In The Process Of Gently Dying, In The Small Bed Of Its Supposed Democratic Comfort.

We Know That Communism Is The Right Hypothesis. All Those Who Abandon This Hypothesis Immediately Resign Themselves To The Market Economy, To Parliamentary Democracy-the Form Of State Suited To Capitalism-and To The Inevitable And 'natural' Character Of The Most Monstrous Inequalities.