Everything – Page 10 – A book of aphorisms
Sep 122023
 

Marxism tamed revolution by rendering it “scientific”, inevitable, a matter of the right ingredients in the right proportions, like chemistry. What has been tamed will be vulgarized, and it is Marx himself who is the true father of Che on a t-shirt.

Sep 062023
 

Complexity, randomness, inspiration, unconscious process — we bestow names as if they conferred understanding.

Sep 052023
 

Revolution is for an imagined future, and revolt, on which it depends, for an imagined past.

Sep 042023
 

To act requires a certain lack of imagination.

Aug 312023
 

“I’m not concerned about short-term fluctuations”: I have lost some money
“I’m in this for the long haul”: I am determined to lose a lot of money

Aug 302023
 

“If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich?”
“Market failure.”