Sublime

While according to the political economists labor is the sole constant price of things, there is nothing more contingent than the price of labor, nothing exposed to greater fluctuations.

Avec Que faire ? qui date de 1902, Lénine s’inscrit à nos yeux dans la lignée de Filippo Buonarroti (dont il n’avait sans doute jamais entendu parler) et d’Auguste Blanqui (avec lequel il a toujours marqué ses distances, « blanquiste » sous sa plume étant loin d’être un compliment). Tout dans cette lignée repose sur un parti de révolutionnaires pro

Third, and most important, Hardt and Negri maintain that with immaterial production all the dichotomies that characterized labor in the industrial era—productive/unproductive, production/reproduction, labor/leisure, waged/unwaged—vanish, so that labor ceases to be a source of differentiation and unequal power relations.8 In the place of the former

Quand j’ai choisi mon itinéraire intellectuel, quand j’ai décidé d’être à la fois un spectateur et un acteur de l’histoire, j’ai commencé par étudier Marx et en particulier Le Capital. Je souhaitais trouver une philosophie vraie de l’histoire qui aurait l’avantage incomparable de nous enseigner à la fois ce qui est et ce qui doit être.

some Marxists even became convinced that new forms of what they called “immaterial labor”—founded in marketing, entertainment, and the digital economy but spilling outside as well into our increasingly brand-saturated, iPhone-happy daily lives—had become the new locus of value creation—leading to prophecies of the eventual rebellion of the digital

One political principle at both the social and the individual level is that whether one promotes or opposes change depends on whether that change is perceived to result in a gain or a loss. For Karl Marx

Finally, it is from this conception that the idea itself of the proletarian revolution must be drawn; for the very essence of the capitalist system consists, as Marx forcibly showed, of a “reversal of the relationship between subject and object”, a reversal brought about by the subordination of subject to object, of “the worker to the material cond