Sublime

Historically, corporations were not the ideal vehicle for leading social and political revolutions. A real revolution sooner or later demands sacrifices that corporations, their employees, and their shareholders are not willing to make. That’s why revolutionaries establish churches, political parties, and armies.

For Balibar, real change is revolutionary change; violent repression, violent domination and exploitation, has created the need for violent revolution, but with the hope, in the middle, of some civility, of civilizing a revolutionary movement, as he puts it, ‘from within’.

All genuine revolutionaries have understood that the revolution implies the dissemination of knowledge among the population as a whole.

a single person is not the origin of a revolution. Not one, not two. An uprising germinates across generations, sprouting from multiple points, breaking ground simultaneously. A revolt is in itself a system, with different functioning groups, nodes that make action and direct purpose.

Il est habituel qu’une assemblée élue dans la foulée d’une victoire de la révolution soit contre-révolutionnaire. Le mouvement qui a renversé le pouvoir en place n’est jamais majoritaire. Avec le suffrage universel, c’est la masse flottante qui se fait entendre, masse dont le sentiment dominant est justement l’effroi, la peur de l’inconnu, du chaos

If we assume that every struggle must end up in a redistribution of poverty we assume the inevitability of our defeat.

De l’autre, la révolution avait changé de nature en étant désormais portée par une doctrine, le socialisme, dont le culte de l’égalité annihilait la liberté et qui postulait la lutte à mort entre la bourgeoisie et la classe ouvrière, indissociable d’une forme de guerre civile. Dès la chute de la monarchie de Juillet qu’il n’aimait pas mais qu’il av