Rosano / Journal

1 entry for Tuesday, May 26, 2020

[Establishing property and separating people from the land as a means of doing or self-sustainability leaves them with no choice but to freely choose to be exploited.]

[Property restricts the flight of those without it while not restricting flight for those who own it.]

[The system of property, like a maze with no exit, eventually funnels people back into the labour market to work as wage slaves.]

[The more capital is repelled by people, the more violently it tries to enclose them by extending the notion of property (genes, software, land) and refashioning people in its own image.]

[The most important outcome of struggle is often not the fulfillment of immediate demands but the creation of a community united in its opposition to oppressive forms, a collective doing.]

[Property is a noun used to describe and conceal an active separating process. To think of it as a noun is to accept the terms of domination.]

[Capital is the movement of denying movement.]

[Revolution is conceivable only if it is imagined as ordinary, that everyone can be a revolutionary.]

[There can be no recipes for revolutionary organization because it is anti-recipe.]

[Politics of events rather than politics of organization.]

[Representative democracy ensures that the masses want what the bourgeoisie thinks they should want. The masses are included in a form of articulation that excludes them. It is not a victory against capitalist rule, it is an extension of capital's domination.]

[at the very least ensure that we die of our own poison as opposed to that of others.]

[The representatives do not betray us: we betray ourselves when we elect them to speak on behalf of us.]

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