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There’s no such thing as a failed utopian community; or, if the collective is an experiment in shared time, how can time fail? A great sense of failure couches every success. YES and SO WHAT? Is That All There Is To It? What goal do you imply with the phrase “failed collective?” Utopia — static and therefore unreal — is never the point. Collectivity arranges itself around a desire for something, to produce something, to become something else (and who cares what else?) beyond its individual members.
— Chris Kraus, “The Failed Collective” (2011)
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Why do I continue to participate in the pro-revolutionary milieu despite the profound pessimism, despite realizing that this milieu is unable to do what it wants to do (create revolution)? Thinking about it right now four things come to mind: friendship, intellectual loneliness, lack of creativity, and an unrealized desire to attack the Left.
— from a dialogue between “DA” and “Frère Dupont” 
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The working class do not have a culture. There is no asian culture, there is no black culture, there is no `people’s’ culture. All culture is bourgeois culture and its products are fashioned for specialised markets. Into its very refinement is folded its barbarity. How much suffering of others purchases one unit of freedom for a patron to feel rich enough to pass it on to the artist so that he may create? All artworks are bought with blood and sweat. The special freedom of the artist is an ugly thing when considered in context of the slavery of others, and yet it is a freedom, the freedom of the dirty face pressed up against the window of opulence, there is beauty and fascination in it. The very best capitalist society may produce is mired and dragged down by its basic structure. No matter that our first instinct for our favourite pieces is to defend them, preserve them, involve ourselves in them. We have had our say about DaDa and pop music but we must, in the end, admit to their ultimate worthlessness and declare that we are prepared not to raise a finger in their defence or their salvage.
— Monsieur Dupont, Communist Nihilism (2003)
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- All empty buildings to be used as sites to establish alternatives to the family
- Free marijuana, hash, LSD, and peyote for anybody who wants to use them.
- Destruction of zoos and the rights of all animals in the zoos to return to their native lands and habitats.
- Destruction of the altar of the Fatherland, a memorial sacred to fascists in Rome.
- Destruction of all youth jails.
- Historical and moral reevaluation of the dinosaur Archeopterix, unfairly constructed as an ogre.
— Some demands from the manifesto of Indiani Metropolitani (Metropolitan Indians), an Italian student movement associated with Autonomia (1977)
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