“All contemporary anti-capitalist movements must abandon the self-illusion of being intrinsically opposed to capitalism; whatever such movements may emerge, they will constitute themselves in the very struggle to destroy/escape capital. The heterogeneity of contemporary social movements also condemns all possibility of representation. The gilets jaunes possess the virtue of self-consciously embracing this condemnation or refusal. The question then is what is to follow.”
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