'What do you think Badiou would make of your fluffy pencil?', W. says. Now is not the time for fluffy pencils!, he would say. The pencil of the revolutionary is simple, functional, and without fluff. The militant pencil has no pencil top. No long haired troll. And the militant owns no pencil case.
'And what would he make of your pink notebook?' The revolutionary notebook is black, small and functional, W. says. With plain pages. No – with quadrille pages. For the thinker-revolutionary must be like a geometer. There must be graphs, axes, lines to plot, marking revolutionary trends. The trend of rising proletarianism. The trend of commodification. The trend of the contradictions of capitalism. That's what we must plot.
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