#georges bataille

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Iron Foundry - Alexander Mosolov

“The Russian economy assumed its current form as early as 1929, at the beginning of the five-year plan.It is characterized by the allocation of nearly all the excess resources to production of the means of production. Capitalism was the first system to employ a substantial share of the available resources for that purpose, but there was nothing within it that opposed the freedom of squander (the reduced squander remained free, and moreover its occurrence could be advantageous to capitalism). Soviet communism closed itself firmly to the principle of nonproductive expenditure. It did not do away with the latter by any means, but the social transformation it brought about eliminated the most costly forms of such spending and its incessant action tends to demand the maximum productivity from each individual, at the limit of human powers. No previous form of economy was able to reserve such a large share of the excess available resources for the increase of the productive forces, that is, for the growth of the system. In every social organization, as in every living organism, the surplus is distributed between the growth of the system and pure expenditure, of no use either to the maintenance of life or to growth. But the very nation that had almost perished from its inability to reserve a large enough share for growth, by a sudden inversion of its equilibrium reduced to a minimum the share that used to be given over to luxury and inertia: Today it only lives for the limitless growth of its productive forces.” - Georges Bataille, ‘The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy’ (1949) [pp. 158, 159]

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Susan Taubes (writing from Paris, 1952)

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The Need for sacrifice

we cant seem to avoid this horrific law of nature, as real as gravity and anything else. The Aztecs sacrificed thousands for the sun to stay alive, God sacrificed his son for humanity and lied to his followers saying that this was the last needed human sacrifice, yet his followers drink his blood and eat his flesh each week and have done so for thousands to years. The Greeks sacrificed the blood of animals for the gods so that they may win their wars, blood demands blood. Each piece of clothing we wear has been created due to the sacrifice of the lives and health of millions of children.

Cronus, the personification of time itself, killed each of his child to keep himself alive. The blood of who knows how many children were necessary to push back against the force of the curse on his life.

Destruction is the most fundamental reality of the universe, much more than creation. Most species that have ever existed have gone extinct since the creation of the earth by whatever anonymous entity.

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Georges Bataille

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“Tonight I thirst for the infinite.”

— Georges Bataille, from L’Abbé C.

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