surplus enjoyment is not a surplus which simply attaches itself to some ‘normal’, fundamental enjoyment, because enjoyment as such emerges only in this surplus, because it is constitutively an 'excess’ [on capitalism’s excessive core]

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1064470873460146178 http://bit.ly/2QDSn2o

Here, we encounter Stiglitz’s..limitation: Does he…not imply that there is another, proper capitalism, in which markets are really and fairly competitive, not our ‘distorted markets in which corporations and the rich can (and unfortunately do) exploit everyone else’?

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1064450785520611328 http://bit.ly/2W3pM7F

the key to actual freedom resides in the…social relations, from the market to the family. Here…change…entails precisely revolutionary class struggle rather than democratic elections or any other ‘political’ measure in the narrow sense of the term https://t.co/vUZXfEA8ID

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1064426825479266304 http://bit.ly/2HLhZaJ

We do not vote on who owns what…- such matters remain outside the sphere of the political, and it is illusory to expect that one will effectively change things by ‘extending’ democracy into the economic sphere by, say, reorganizing the banks to place them under popular control

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1064412797151395840 http://bit.ly/2JMLcnM

the influx of immigrant workers… is part of the strategy of capital to hold in check the workers’ demands. This is why, in the United States, Bush did more for the legalization of the status of Mexican illegal immigrants than the Democrats caught in trade union pressures.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1064407409945395205 http://bit.ly/2X9Yrlw

economic growth and global-capitalist processes structurally exclude democracy – even in the form that capitalism itself ascribes to it.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1064249886042816513 http://bit.ly/2WtYsDC

in a way you do encounter the impossible. You cannot say this is mere transcendental illusion of confusing an empirical object with the impossible Thing. The vagina is impossible, but it is not simply an illusion.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1064246614548602880 http://bit.ly/2WnqzEB