Guy Debord
Revolution is
not ‘showing’ life to people, but bringing them to life. A
revolutionary organization must always remember that its aim is not
getting its adherents to listen to convincing talks by expert leaders,
but getting them to speak for themselves, in order to achieve, or at
least strive toward, an equal degree of participation. The cinematic
spectacle is one of the forms of pseudo-communication (developed, in
lieu of other possibilities, by the present class technology) in which
this aim is radically unfeasible. … In appearance a film-club
discussion is an attempt at dialogue, at social encounter, at a time
when individuals are increasingly isolated by the urban
environment. But it is in fact the negation of such dialogue since the
people have not come together to decide on anything.
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