Fredy Perlman (August 10, 1934 - July 26, 1985) on Economics and Consumerism(published by RevoltSource) |
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American Author, Publisher, Anti-communist, Anarchist, and 1960's, Revolutionary, French Activist
: An American author, publisher, and activist. His best-known work, Against His-Story, Against Leviathan!, retells the historical rise of state domination through the Hobbesian metaphor of the Leviathan. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
Quote #12 on Economic Struggle Quotes >> Economics and Consumerism
“The things the worker buys with his wages are first of all consumer goods which enable him to survive, to reproduce his labor-power so as to be able to continue selling it. And they are spectacles, objects for passive admiration. He consumes and admires the products of human activity passively. He does not exist in the world as an active agent who transforms it. But as a helpless impotent spectator he may call this state of powerless admiration "happiness," and since labor is painful, he may desire to be "happy," namely inactive, all his life (a condition similar to being born dead). The commodities, the spectacles, consume him; he uses up living energy in passive admiration; he is consumed by things. In this sense, the more he has, the less he is.”
Source: "The Reproduction of Daily Life," by Fredy Perlman, 1969, Source: Anything Can Happen, p. 31-49.
"The Reproduction of Daily Life," by Fredy Perlman, 1969, Source: Anything Can Happen, p. 31-49.
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