"The more societies constitute themselves in states, the more their subjects embody the economy. They monitor themselves and each other; they control their emotions, their movements, their inclinations and believe that they can expect the same self-control from others. They link up, put themselves in chains and chain themselves to each other, countering any type of excess."
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Introduction to Civil War (2010), p. 85.
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Tiqqun
Tiqqun was a French-Italian left anarchist philosophical journal, produced in two issues from 1999 to 2001. Topics treated in the journal's articles include anti-capitalism, anti-statism, feminism, and the history of late 20th century revolutionary movements, especially May 1968 in France, the Italian Years of Lead, and the Anti-globalization protests of the late 1990s and early 2000s. The journal's articles were written anonymously; as a result, the word "Tiqqun" is also used to name the articl
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