“People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.
Academics claiming to have the answers of liberation often miss real world interpersonal sources of strength because they lead lives of privilege and comfort.”
This quote was really moving for me as a college student surrounded by (who I perceived to be) a bunch of overzealous political loudmouths and general well-to-do / upper class folk who couldn’t walk leftist praxis the way they’d talk it.
There’s a working class heart to the book, even though a lot of it is propped up with super pretentious and almost intentionally obtuse or exclusive language. Dude hit the nail on the head enough for me to take interest, though. That quote up there made me feel seen enough to check the book out – Raoul Vangeim’s ‘Revolution of Everyday Life.’
Anyone read this, have any thoughts on it?