Wednesday 22 August 2012

YOU'RE FUCKING AROUND WITH US? - NOT FOR LONG!


      Written in 1967, by Raoul Vaneigem, the book, The Revolution of Everyday Life, is still as relevant today as it was when written all those years ago.  For those who haven't read it, this short extract might prompt you in that direction.

Chapter 25
 "You're Fucking Around With Us? - Not For Long!"

       In Watts, Prague, Stockholm, Stanleyville, Gdansk, Turin, Port Talbot, Cleveland, Cordoba, Amsterdam, wherever the act and wareness of refusal generates passionate break-outs from the factories of collective illusion, the revolution of everyday life is under way. The struggle intensifies as misery becomes universal. What for years were reasons for fighting specific issues - hunger, restrictions, boredom, illness, anxiety, isolation, deceit - now reveal misery's fundamental rationality, its omnipresent emptiness, its appalling oppressive abstraction. For this misery, the world of hierarchical power, the world of the State, of sacrifice, exchange and the quantitative - the commodity as will and representation of the world - is held responsible by those moving towards an entirely new society that is still to be invented and yet is already among us. All over the globe, revolutionary praxis, like a photographic exposer, is transforming negative into positive, lighting up the hidden face of the earth with the fires of rebellion to ink in the map of its triumph. 

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