M.I. Asma > Quotes

“newer technologies, newer institutions, newer deployments and alliances of imperial power, but the same fundamental processes and relations functioned beneath the epiphenomena of novelty.”
― M.I. Asma, On Necrocapitalism: A Plague Journal

“To be clear, anti-natalism is a minor philosophical position. In fact, its proponents enjoy this minor status because they feel it confirms that they possess the kind of profound insight that only a few enlightened intellectuals could ever hope to attain. In this sense, it is also an elitist position and thus anti-mass, as its own dismissal of the insights from the oppressed masses demonstrates: such insights, for the anti-natalist, are delusions of the herd. They are, in a weird sense, inverted Nietzscheans who have somehow managed to copper-fasten the elitism of his philosophy with the ressentiment he despised.”
― M.I. Asma, On Necrocapitalism: A Plague Journal

“Proclamations of new phases are always accompanied by proclamations of new revolutionary theories that condemn to the historical dustbin what our revolutionary history has earned by its hard work and sacrifices. Not surprisingly, such proclamations tend to collaborate with the capitalist imaginary by promoting a willful historical amnesia.”
― M.I. Asma, On Necrocapitalism: A Plague Journal

“type of mass organizing led by a revolutionary party is more urgent than ever.”
― M.I. Asma, On Necrocapitalism: A Plague Journal

“Let us begin this chapter by asserting that life under any class society, especially capitalism, is “a protracted civil war.”
― M.I. Asma, On Necrocapitalism: A Plague Journal

“Writing about the American presidential election from a militant perspective has many pitfalls.”
― M.I. Asma, On Necrocapitalism: A Plague Journal

“It is only through the revolutionary proletarian party, then, that the working class can find political unity in this context.”
― M.I. Asma, On Necrocapitalism: A Plague Journal

“The villain Thanos can bend all of reality except for the metaphysics of capitalism.”
― M.I. Asma, On Necrocapitalism: A Plague Journal

“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born, in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” Antonio Gramsci”
― M.I. Asma, On Necrocapitalism: A Plague Journal