Raoul Vaneigem was all about liberation, here and now. He had no truck with pied pipers who would play a song of freedom while leading people into a barracks.
"We formed a 'group-at-risk' that was conscious of the hostility of the dominant world, of the need for radical rupture, and of the danger of giving in to the paranoia typical of minds under siege. By showing its limits and its weaknesses, the situationist experience can also be seen as a critical meditation on the new type of society sketched out by the Paris Commune, by the Makhnovist movement and the Republic of Councils wiped out by Lenin and Trotsky, by the libertarian communities in Spain later smashed by the Communist Party. The situationist project is not about what happens once consumer society is rejected and a genuinely human society has emerged. Rather, it illuminates now how lifestyle can supersede survival, predatory behavior, power, trade, and the death-reflex."
— Raoul Vaneigem. Hans Ulrich Obrist. "In Conversation with Raoul Vaneigem". E-Flux Journal, № 6. 2009-05.
https://www.e-flux.com/journal/6/61400/in-conversation-with-raoul-vaneigem
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