This World We Must Leave and Other Essays Quotes

“All human life, from the very beginning of its development within capitalist society, has undergone an impoverishment. More than this, capitalist society is death organized with all the appearances of life. Here it is not a question of death as the extinction of life, but death-in-life, death with all the substance of power of life. The human being is dead and is no more than a ritual of capital.”
― Jacques Camatte, This World We Must Leave and Other Essays

“The autonomy of form affects all aspects of life dominated by capital. Knowledge is valid only if it is formalized, if it is emptied of content. Absolute knowledge is tautology realized; it is dead form deployed over all knowledge. Science is its systemization; epistemology is its redundancy.”
― Jacques Camatte, This World We Must Leave and Other Essays

“Teachers and professors are, from the point of view of capital, useless beings who will tend to be eliminated in favor of programmed lessons and teaching machines. (In just the same way, capital tends to eliminate the bureaucracy because it inhibits the transmission of information that is the very basis of capital's mobility.) It is ironic then that many people who argue for the necessity of life tum out to be readily convinced by solutions that entrust teaching to machines and thus eliminate human life.”
― Jacques Camatte, This World We Must Leave and Other Essays