The Invisible Committee

"Communism is the real movement that destitutes the existing state of things."
Quotes daily.

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We just have to keep in mind that nothing different can come out of an assembly than what is there already.

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We’ve had a blind faith in crisis, a faith so blind and so enduring that we didn’t see how the liberal order had made it the centerpiece of its arsenal.

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Indignation is in fact the maximum political intensity attainable by the atomized individual, who mistakes his screen for the world just as he mistakes his feelings for his thoughts.

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A generation could very well become ungovernable.

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The increasingly frequent clashes have this formidable quality: that they are always an occasion for complicities of this type, sometimes ephemeral, but sometimes also unbetrayable.

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When a few thousand young people find the determination to assail this world, you’d have to be as stupid as a cop to seek out a financial trail, a leader, or a snitch.

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There’s no new revolutionary subject whose emergence had eluded observers. So if it’s said that the “people” are in the streets it’s not a people that existed previously, but rather the people that previously were lacking.

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As the welfare state collapses, we see the emergence of a brute conflict between those who desire order and those who don’t.

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"By the government’s own admission, 99 police stations were put to the torch, thousands of police cars were destroyed and all of the ruling party’s offices around Egypt were burned down.”

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The dialectic of the constituent and the constituted comes to confer a higher meaning on what is never anything but a contingent political form.

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This whole personal politics is dead, and that is why the small number of orators that survive on the surface of the globe amuse more than they govern. The cast of politicians is actually composed of clowns with varying degrees of talent.

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Now that there’s no longer any Soviet threat to wield as a way to ensure the psychotic cohesion of the citizens, anything will do to make sure the population is ready to defend itself—that is defend the system. Maintaining an endless fear to forestall a frightful end.

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Perceiving a world peopled not with things but with forces, not with subjects but with powers, not with bodies but with bonds.

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Those in a hurry to bury the insurrection don’t waste their time trying to mend the broken foundation of an already invalidated legitimacy. They attempt instead to infuse the movement itself with a new claim to legitimacy.

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When one asks the left of the left what the revolution would consist in, it is quick to answer: “placing the human at the center.”

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Constituent power names that monstrous piece of magic that turns the state into that entity that’s never wrong, having its basis in reason; that has no enemies, since to oppose it is to be a criminal; that can do anything, being without honor.

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When a few thousand young people find the determination to assail this world, you’d have to be as stupid as a cop to seek out a financial trail, a leader, or a snitch.

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The fiction of the constituent power actually only serves to mask the strictly political, fortuitous origin, the raw coup by which power is instituted.

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Epochs are proud. Each one claims to be unique.

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“Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens,” the song says.