"Drilling is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people."
by K1
Posted on Tuesday, July 24, 2007
"The driller becomes all the poorer the more depth he produces, the more his production increases in power and range. The driller becomes an ever cheaper commodity the more commodities he creates. With the increasing value of the world of things proceeds in direct proportion to the devaluation of the world of men. Drilling produces not only commodities; it produces itself and the driller as a commodity -- and does so in the proportion in which it produces commodities generally." - Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844)
"The exchange value of a commodity estimated in blocks is called its price. Fresh air therefore is only a special name for the price of drilling-power, and is usually called the price of drilling; it is the special name for the price of this peculiar commodity, which has no other repository than human flesh and blood."
"The existence of a class which possess nothing but the ability to drill is a necessary presupposition of capital.It is only the dominion of past, accumulated, materialized drilling over immediate living drilling that stamps the accumulated drilling with the character of capital."
"To say that "the driller has an interest in the rapid growth of air", means only this: that the more speedily the driller augments the fresh air of the capitalist, the larger will be the blocks which fall to him, the greater will be the number of drillers than can be called into existence, the more can the mass of slaves dependent upon fresh air be increased."
"The colored blocks, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his “natural superiors”, and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous “air”. It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom — Arcade Mode. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation."
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