Why Should The Lamp Or The House

Probably It's Insufficient To Say That Behind The Governments, Behind The Apparatus Of The State, There Is The Dominant Class; One Must Locate The Point Of Activity, The Places And Forms In Which Its Domination Is Exercised. And Because This Domination Is Not Simply The Expression In Political Terms Of Economic Exploitation, It Is Its Instrument And, To A Large Extent, The Condition Which Makes It Possible; The Suppression Of The One Is Achieved Through The Exhaustive Discernment Of The Other.

We Have To Be There At The Birth Of Ideas, The Bursting Outward Of Their Force: Not In Books Expressing Them, But In Events Manifesting This Force, In Struggles Carried On Around Ideas, For Or Against Them.

I'm Very Proud That Some People Think That I'm A Danger For The Intellectual Health Of Students. When People Start Thinking Of Health In Intellectual Activities, I Think There Is Something Wrong. In Their Opinion I Am A Dangerous Man, Since I Am A Crypto-marxist, An Irrationalist, A Nihilist.

It's Not A Matter Of Emancipating Truth From Every System Of Power (which Would Be A Chimera, For Truth Is Already Power) But Of Detaching The Power Of Truth From The Forms Of Hegemony, Social, Economic And Cultural, Within Which It Operates At The Present Time

Wars Are No Longer Waged In The Name Of A Sovereign Who Must Be Defended; They Are Waged On Behalf Of The Existence Of Everyone; Entire Populations Are Mobilized For The Purpose Of Wholesale Slaughter In The Name Of Life Necessity: Massacres Have Become Vital.