>In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create. What spark of humanity, of a possible creativity, can remain alive in a being dragged out of sleep at six every morning, jolted about in suburban trains, deafened by the racket of machinery, bleached and steamed by meaningless sounds and gestures, spun dry by statistical controls, and tossed out at the end of the day into the entrance halls of railway stations, those cathedrals of departure for the hell of weekdays and the nugatory paradise of weekends, where the crowd communes in weariness and boredom? From adolescence to retirement each 24-hour cycle repeats the same shattering bombardment, like bullets hitting a window: mechanical repetition, time-which-is-money, submission to bosses, boredom, exhaustion. From the butchering of youth’s energy to the gaping wound of old age, life cracks in every direction under the blows of forced labour. Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live. The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry. Already the front against forced labour is being formed; its gestures of refusal are moulding the consciousness of the future. Every call for productivity in the conditions chosen by capitalist and Soviet economy is a call to slavery.
>To the extent that automation and cybernetics foreshadow the massive replacement of workers by mechanical slaves, forced labour is revealed as belonging purely to the barbaric practices needed to maintain order. Thus power manufactures the dose of fatigue necessary for the passive assimilation of its televised diktats. What carrot is worth working for, after this? The game is up; there is nothing to lose anymore, not even an illusion. The organization of work and the organization of leisure are the blades of the castrating shears whose job is to improve the race of fawning dogs. One day, will we see strikers, demanding automation and a ten-hour week, choosing, instead of picketing, to make love in the factories, the offices and the culture centres? Only the planners, the managers, the union bosses and the sociologists would be surprised and worried. Not without reason; after all, their skin is at stake.
Raoul Vaneigem.
Raoul Vaneigem (1934-2026), the author of this posted text, was a Belgian who died at age 92 just this past summerThe long version of OP's text above, is credited with inspiring the 1968 revolution on the streets of France>The Revolution of Everyday Lifehttps://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/raoul-vaneigem-the-revolution-of-everyday-life
>>544810126Paix à son âme.
that's how you say neet in french
>>544808141Most modern day jobs are completely pointless. Being born into this era where they are relentlessly keeping the system of slavery alive merely because it makes a small number of people's lives more comfortable is tragic. We literally don't have to live like this, the resources and technology are all there now to live a semi utopian existence, yet we still live like a villainous dark age slave state.
>>544808141>tfw I haven't paid taxes in over 10 years >tfw telling normies they they are responsible for the absolute shit Europe is turning into because they keep financing the system
>>544813335How common is this view among your peers?
>>544813515Most people don't examine the system they are born into unfortunately, or the ones that do question it just become blackpilled and drown their misery in alcohol and drugs trying to forget about it.
>>544813335On top of that work doesn't even pay for the basics anymore.
>>544813621A truly tragic state of affairs.
>>544810126But the 1968 revolution was a pedo colored revolution and did nothing in the way of labor rights
>>544808141There are a lot of long words in there, Miss. We're naught but humble pirates,
>>544815965The ship is about to sink!
>>544813621>>544813764Blame fiat that our nations rely on to pretend they're bigger than they are, borrowing authority on mere credit.
Please start making love in the factories, the offices and the culture centres.
