The Coming Insurrection

In 2008, nine individuals believed to have written "The Coming Insurrection" were arrested on charges of terrorism by the French government.

This video presents some excerpts of that book on the collapse of capitalism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coming_Insurrection
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/16/books/16situation.html?_r=1




Unquestioned assumptions are the real authorities of any culture.

The first phase of the domination of the economy over social life brought into the definition of all human realization the obvious degradation of being into having. The present phase of total occupation of social life by the accumulated results of the economy leads to a generalized sliding of having into appearing, from which all actual "having" must draw its immediate prestige and its ultimate function. At the same time all individual reality has become social reality directly dependent on social power and shaped by it. It is allowed to appear only to the extent that it is not.

The spectacle presents itself as something enormously positive, indisputable and inaccessible. It says nothing more than "that which appears is good, that which is good appears." The attitude which it demands in principle is passive acceptance which in fact it already obtained by its manner of appearing without reply, by its monopoly of appearance.