communist objects
On things and comrades
The light is from the East… not only the liberation of the working class. The light is from the East – in a new relation to man, to woman, and to objects. Objects in our hands should also be equal, also be comrades, and not black, gloomy slaves like they have here.
The art of the East should be nationalized and rationed out. Objects will be understood, will become people’s friends and comrades, and people will begin to know how to laugh and enjoy and converse with things…
Alexander Rodchenko, May 04, 1925, Paris (cited in Lavrentiev et al., 2005: 169)
Commodity fights in Post-2008 Athens: Zapatistas coffee, Kropotkinian drinks and Fascist rice
Every given commodity fights for itself, cannot acknowledge the others, and attempts to impose itself everywhere as if it were the only one... (Debord, 1967: 66)