“These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power. In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for.”
IN ALL OUR DECADENCE PEOPLE DIE An exhibition of fanzines 1976 - 1984 Curated by Johan Kugelberg Sept 30 - Oct 20 @ Boo Hooray (265 Canal St. #601 NYC)
“Our enormously productive economy… demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satifaction, our ego satisfaction in consumption.”
-Victor LeBeau(a market research analyst writing circa 1946)
“If you believe the promise that an authoritarian state makes that if it has enough knowledge on every citizen it will keep people safe. I think that’s a false promise. It doesn’t actually happen. If that was the case then East Germany would have been a really incredible place to live while in fact it wasn’t."