2026-02-09.3_R Alquati - political atomisation

“[Alquati] was of the opinion that ‘the reality of the proletariat today is one of political atomisation.’ This fragmentation most commonly led to passivity; where resistance did occur, its isolation was such as to render it ‘functional to the system’. Modern capitalism had shown itself to be a social formation which ‘rationalises all aspects of social life, which plans exploitation on a world scale’. To defeat it, revolutionaries would have to break the ‘blind empiricism’ of localised conflicts, and discover a more global point from which to launch their attack.” - pg. 49

• Romano Alquati in Steve Wright, Storming Heaven

-> written/formulated more than 50 years ago and that opinion still holds up way too well