Rosano / Journal

2 entries for Friday, May 22, 2020

[If social relations are self-determining and not fetishized, they cannot conform to laws and are inherently void of certainty.]

[If capitalism can be understood completely through the laws of its own motion, it means that society is fetishized.]

[Certainty is the negation of revolutionary change, therefore our struggle is therefore against certainty.]

[Classes cannot be separated from their constitution: to say that they exist implies the framework which necessitates them.]

[We don't struggle as the working class: we struggle against being classified.]

[We can only be emancipated to the extent that we are not what we are classified, identified as.]

[During production, the worker produces an object as well as the value that perpetuates the command over his labour.]

[We don't need to be explicit in our negation: our existence as not-ness is the most fundamental force against identity."

Part of: John Holloway: Change the world without taking power.

Next time somebody comes to you with a feature request, try this: "Can you tell me a story about a time that you wanted to do that and what you had to do instead?" The first part of the question gives you proper context. The second lets you evaluate the loss.

How did you find these possible solutions?

Why not just keep doing things the same way?

What was happening that made you feel it wasn't working?