“I would [also] erase from the list of demands put forth by your leaders [demands for a better future]. The Future is your enemy. The future is what is used to deceive people, especially, the youth. They say “you have a future” or “you have to create your future”, which really means to resign yourself to death, to a future death. This future is what Capital needs…..The future is theirs, it’s their weapon. Don’t let it seem like it’s something blessed or beneficial: their future should sound to us like death….the future is the future of Business, of Finance, of Capital. You don’t have a future! You need to have the courage to denounce this.”
— 85–year–old Agustin Garcia Calvo, speaking to the crowds at Puerta del Sol, as translated by Maxine Holz (via shoulders)
nomajesty asked: I think the overlap on some of our posts is pretty startling. I just went a presentation Graeber gave, and here I find this video which addresses exactly the issue I found most fascinating in his talk. Strange how things work out like that...
where did you see him speak? it seems he is getting steadily more popular! at least on the internet..
“If only we knew that the world were ending, we would finally be able to risk everything—not just because we would have nothing to lose, but because we would no longer have anything to win.”
“If I were to aim at hitting a bull’s eye here—aiming big—I’d say everyone knows what’s needed: a law against brand names. Get to work, Chirac. Let’s ban the conspicuous symbols of Capital, with no compromises.”
“I speak here in so much as a participant in the chaos that develops at present around Tiqqun. I do not say “us”; no one can, without usurpation, speak in the name of a collective adventure. The best that I can do is to speak anonymously, not of but in the experience I take part in. The avant-garde, at all costs, will not be treated as an exterior demon that one must always guard against.”
