Sublime

Freedom, however, is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth. Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness. In fact, freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the

This is really the form that the dilemma takes. It is not solely a question of keeping the body alive; it is rather how not to be killed. Not to be killed becomes the great end, and morality takes its meaning from that center. Until that center is shifted, nothing real can be accomplished. It is the uncanny and perhaps unwitting recognition of this

for though only the society could give security and stability, only the individual, the person, had the power of moral choice—the power of change, the essential function of life.

Dans Métamorphoses du travail puis dans Capitalisme, socialisme, écologie41, il plaide dans le sillage de l’économiste Karl Polanyi (1886-1964)42, pour le « réencastrement » de l’économie – et de la technique qui la sert – dans la société. Concrètement, il s’agit pour Gorz dans ces années, non pas de supprimer la logique du marché, mais de

The very fact that radicalism leans so comfortably, half-consciously, upon the System and its laws, goes on almost risk-free, beside Another World, confirms that the System’s thrust is still, on an unprecedented scale, democratic and benign.

One way to give labor more power is to make it easier to organize workers by passing labor law reform bills—the perennial campaign promises of Democratic candidates that go perennially unfulfilled. Another is to direct large-scale government investments into key national sectors—clean energy, manufacturing, education, and caregiving—to create jobs,

The entire works of Marx are permeated with a spirit incompatible with the vulgar materialism of Engels and Lenin. He never regards man as being a mere part of nature, but always as being at the same time, owing to the fact that he exercises a free activity, an antagonistic term vis-à-vis nature.