The Right to Be Greedy

Greed in its fullest sense is the only possible basis of communist society.

— The Right to Be Greedy

The present forms of greed lose out, in the end, because they turn out to be not greedy enough.

— The Right to Be Greedy

The perspective of communist egoism is the perspective of that selfishness which desires nothing so much as other selves, of that egoism which wants nothing so much as other egos; of that greed which is greedy to love — love being the “total appropriation” of man by man.

— The Right to Be Greedy

The activity of simultaneous appropriation by each individual of all the rest, or of the appropriation of society by all at once inter-appropriation (realized inter-subjectivity, or co-property) - itself constitutes the totality of social production.

— The Right to Be Greedy

“Communist egoism” names the synthesis of individualism and collectivism, just as communist society names the actual, material, sensuous solution to the historical contradiction of the "particular" and the "general" interest, a contradiction engendered especially in the cleavage of society against itself into classes.

— The Right to Be Greedy