Heroes Quotes

“In the wake of the Neoliberal proclamation of the end of class struggle, the only social categories remaining are winner and loser. No more capitalists and workers; no more exploiters and exploited. Either you are strong and smart, or you deserve your misery. The establishment of capitalist absolutism is based on the mass adhesion...to the philosophy of natural selection. The mass murderer is someone who believes in the right of the fittest and the strongest to win in the social game, but he also knows or senses that he is not the fittest or the strongest. So he opts for the only possible act of retaliation and self assertion: to kill and be killed.”
― Franco Bifo Berardi, Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide

“Money is our shelter, the only way we have to access life. But at the same time, if you want money you have to renounce life.”
― Franco Bifo Berardi, Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide

“Nazism is essentially based on the negation of the human nature of the other, while Fascism is based on the aggressive inclusion of the other, and the punishment and extermination of those who refuse to be included.”
― Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide

“L’identità è lo strumento percettivo e concettuale che ci dà una possibilità di conoscenza, ma noi scambiamo questa conoscenza per un ri-conoscimento. Cosicché siamo condotti a credere di sapere già, di possedere una mappa. Questo può essere utile talvolta, ma è pericoloso scambiare la nostra mappa culturale per un territorio intimo dell’appartenenza. Se non avete una mappa vi perdete, ma perdersi è l’inizio di un processo di conoscenza, è la premessa per creare una mappa.”
― Franco Bifo Berardi, Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide