BARRIKAD "Where there was fire - we brought gasoline" C42 NBM18TAPE
The invisible leviathan that rules is the value imperative: when value
based on abstract labour is not only the undisputed regulator of
production and consumption, but when this imperative has hegemonised
social consciousness, when as Marx puts it: »individuals are now ruled by
abstractions». Only one critique of the value form was adequate to the
situationists, returning to Marx. Leaving orthodox Marxism behind: state
capitalism, Lenin, wage work, surplus value, realization of the
proletariat as a positive side...but rather »Communism is for us not a
state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality
[will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which
abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement
result from the premises now in existence (Marx, 1845)». The situationists
tried to put practice and theory into its own material force or rather as the results of
human practice catch up with theory. Negating themselves as a function in
a mechanical totality to escape reformism and the inevitable return to
capital logic in such a process. Where there was fire - we brought
gasoline tries to catch the historical sound of such an attack and
withdrawal. Gilles Dauvé summarize this period with a 16 pages thick
booklet now 40 years later.
Large cristal clear plastic case with booklet. Black cassette with chrome tape
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