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needs were historically produced

Before economics could claim the title of “the science of behaviours,” or even the status of “applied psychology,” the economic creature, the being of need, had to be made to proliferate on the surface of the Earth. This being of need, this needy toiler, is not a creation of nature. For a long time…

—p.214 To Our Friends Omnia Sunt Communia (197) by Comité Invisible
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the World Bank keeps exactly the same tallies

1994 was when the National Program of Solidarity (PRONOSOL) was launched in Mexico with the support of 170,000 local “solidarity committees” designed to soften the effects of brutal social destructuring that would logically be produced by the free-trade agreements with the United States. It led to …

—p.212 Omnia Sunt Communia (197) by Comité Invisible
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that stupidity is a power in this world

Everything is local, including the global, although we still need to localize it. The neoliberal hegemony results from the way it floats in the air, spreads via countless channels that are barely visible for the most part, and appears invincible because it can’t be situated. Rather than seeing Wall…

—p.190 Our Only Homeland: Childhood (169) by Comité Invisible
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the smart cities and the horrible banlieues

Capital doesn’t frame itself any longer in national terms, but territory by territory. It doesn’t spread itself evenly in every place; it concentrates itself locally by organizing each territory into a milieu of cultivation. It doesn’t try to get everyone moving at the same rate, with progress on t…

—p.180 Our Only Homeland: Childhood (169) by Comité Invisible
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there is no one to be organized

  1. If the insurgents’ war against the government needs to be asymmetrical, it’s because there is an ontological asymmetry between them, and hence a disagreement about the very definition of war, about its methods as well as its objectives. We other revolutionaries are both the focus and the target …
—p.159 Let’s Disappear (131) by Comité Invisible