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you see the value of your work through their eyes

The comrade relation remakes the place from which one sees, what it is possible to see, and what possibilities can appear. It enables the revaluation of work and time, what one does, and for whom one does it. Is one’s work done for the people or for the bosses? Is it voluntary or done because one h…

—p.7 Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging by Jodi Dean
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building communism entails more than resistance

Communism is also the name for the positive alternative to capitalism’s permanent and expanding exploitation, crisis, and immiseration, the name of a system of production based on meeting social needs—from each according to ability to each according to need, to paraphrase Marx’s famous slogan—in a …

—p.5 by Jodi Dean
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a document of barbarism

[...] The nature of this sadness stands out more clearly if one asks with whom the adherents of historicism actually empathize. The answer is inevitable: with the victor. And all rulers are the heirs of those who conquered before them. Hence, empathy with the victor invariably benefits the rulers. …

—p.256 Illuminations: Essays and Reflections Theses on the Philosophy of History (253) by Walter Benjamin