{"product_id":"105809","title":"Revolutionary Notes ","description":"\u003ccenter\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/tmgdisk01.cafe24.com\/images\/vs\/4172\/sv\/WQtV4YT6nj22CvVqZnmAZr.png?v=1764959639\" style=\"max-width:100%;max-height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center;font-size:30px;font-weight:bolder;line-height:1.6em\"\u003e Revolutionary Notes \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd 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style=\"text-align:left;word-break:break-all;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eBook Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003eKim Gyu-hang, who reads the world with concise writing style and insightful sentences.\u003cbr\u003e His revolutionary notes, written 11 years after the Life of Jesus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Revolutionary Note begins with the following question:\u003cbr\u003e 'Is capitalism really a class society?'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A blueprint for a revolution that permeates the social system\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eKim Gyu-hang is a rare socio-cultural critic whose writing style and content are consistent.\u003cbr\u003e Although he has been listed as an author in the so-called Red Book several times, 『Revolutionary Notes』 is his second work, published 11 years after 『The Life of Jesus』.\u003cbr\u003e With his uniquely sharp insight, he analyzes all structures of the world, including politics, economy, society, culture, art, education, people, and current affairs, and writes revolutionary notes.\u003cbr\u003e Beyond the spiritual revolution at the personal level, 『Revolutionary Notes』 penetrates the fundamental social system that supports the sum total of individuals. \u003cbr\u003eKim Gyu-hang states that “the ‘world without prospects’ we live in now, with no end in sight, is not a temporary symptom of capitalism, but rather a revelation of its true nature,” and that “it is urgent to go beyond local or temporal perspectives, face the essence and structure of capitalism, and develop our own views on overcoming capitalism.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 『Revolutionary Notes』 begins by showing us the stark truth that we have been ignoring or denying.\u003cbr\u003e “Human history is the history of classes.\u003cbr\u003e As long as conditions were created for classes to be created, humanity has inevitably lived in a class society, as if it were an expression of instinct.\u003cbr\u003e “The 20th century real socialist societies that were claimed to have abolished class were no exception.”\u003cbr\u003e Then, one by one, we bring out the first questions, the fundamental questions that we have completely forgotten and live with. \u003cbr\u003eFor example, when everyone says, \"We are entering the age of artificial intelligence and robots...\", I tell them to ask, \"Why do humans need artificial intelligence and robots?\"\u003cbr\u003e Should homes and real estate be private property? Wouldn't it be better for everyone if large monopolies (chaebols, conglomerates) were shared? Can the climate crisis be prevented under capitalism?… While reading \"Revolutionary Notes,\" readers will experience lost questions being reopened and new ones emerging.\u003cbr\u003e So, “change begins with ‘reopening the question.’”\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e You can preview some of the book's contents.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan\u003ePreview\u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eindex\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e 1\u003cbr\u003e 2\u003cbr\u003e 3\u003cbr\u003e 4\u003cbr\u003e 5\u003cbr\u003e 6\u003cbr\u003e 7\u003cbr\u003e 8\u003cbr\u003e 9\u003cbr\u003e 10\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eInto the book\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e We are convinced that living in a capitalist society is quite difficult, but at least it is better than previous societies.\u003cbr\u003e Not necessarily.\u003cbr\u003e In 13th-century England, serfs worked 31 hours a week. \u003cbr\u003eIn today's terms, a serf would work about five hours a day, half of which he would work autonomously on his own means of production, and would be provided with free housing and guaranteed lifetime employment, passing on the housing and employment to his children.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.13\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Exploitation is legal and normal under capitalism.\u003cbr\u003e The phrase 'I wish for a world without exploitation' actually means 'I wish for the abolition of capitalism.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.38\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The reason why capitalists endlessly repeat the pursuit of profit and accumulation activities is because they are ‘personified capital’ before they are human beings.\u003cbr\u003e The soul of the capitalist is the soul of capital.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.44\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Jeff Bezos, the richest person in human history, has a net worth of 170 trillion won as of 2019.\u003cbr\u003e This is the amount of money that a person earning 100 million won a year would have to save for 1.7 million years without spending a single penny of their wages. \u003cbr\u003eWhether Bezos can spend all that money or actually needs it is irrelevant to his activities as a capitalist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.45\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A wage slave is anyone who does not belong to the left side of the capitalist social relationship of 'capital versus wage labor.'\u003cbr\u003e Small business owners who cannot secure stable wages and become self-exploiting business owners who exploit themselves and their families are also wage slaves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.79\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In traditional slave societies, the proportion of slaves among the total population is approximately 30 percent.\u003cbr\u003e Capitalist society is an extreme form of slavery, where most people, called citizens, or the people, are wage slaves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e We often refer to the situation in which poor people have the legal right to freedom but have difficulty enjoying any of it as a 'state in which freedom is violated by economic inequality.'\u003cbr\u003e But that is true capitalist freedom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.83\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCapital has no interest in 'civilizational' changes or distinctions such as whether labor is industrial or service labor, material or immaterial labor.\u003cbr\u003e The essence of the working class is ‘social relations.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.84\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Identity is not separate from class, but rather an extension of it.\u003cbr\u003e Class exploitation and oppression exist not only between capital and wage labor, but also between men and women, and between majorities and minorities.\u003cbr\u003e Also, minorities do not exist only as identities.\u003cbr\u003e The lower class people are also a major minority.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.93\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Current capitalist productivity is such that a 15-hour workweek is sufficient for most people to maintain a decent standard of living.\u003cbr\u003e However, the '15-hour workweek' is still a dream.\u003cbr\u003e Why don't working hours decrease?\u003cbr\u003e --- p.106\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eJust as primitive man did with natural phenomena, humans have a habit of dismissing things that are completely inexplicable as 'just the way they are'.\u003cbr\u003e For modern people who do not understand materialism, life under capitalism is no different from that of primitive people facing inexplicable natural phenomena.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.131\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Although he is very critical of capitalism, his life as an individual conforms to capitalism. The 'separation of knowledge and life' is not an ethical problem, but rather a natural phenomenon that occurs because his life is captured by fetishism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.134\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What makes capitalism special as a class society is that the ruling class is not the master.\u003cbr\u003e The only master is capital, that is, materialism.\u003cbr\u003e The ruling class is nothing more than a 'slave who has assumed the role of the ruling class', performing its role according to the orders and will of the material god. \u003cbr\u003eSuper capitalists in the Internet age are not just successful rich people, but are revered as revolutionaries and visionaries who change the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.135\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The more desperately we need freedom, the more difficult it is to discern its meaning.\u003cbr\u003e Freedom is misunderstood as liberal freedom, and democracy as bourgeois democracy.\u003cbr\u003e After a long struggle, freedom and democracy were achieved, and while everyone was celebrating, that is, while the sense of caution and restraint against capitalism was lifted, we very quickly rushed into a full-scale materialistic society.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.154\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It is not because Korea has become poorer than before that it has recorded the world's highest suicide rate and the world's lowest birth rate in just 20 years since democratization and that the younger generation has come to call their country \"hell (Hell Joseon).\"\u003cbr\u003e The problem is that we suddenly found ourselves living in an extremely materialistic society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Intellectuals are completely absorbed in grand narratives, but when errors or limitations are discovered, they return to micro-discourses. \u003cbr\u003eIt is difficult to find any proper criticism or reflection between these transitions.\u003cbr\u003e There is only the 'age of grand discourse' and the 'age of micro discourse'.\u003cbr\u003e In the age of grand narratives, if you pay attention to micro-discourses, you are labeled a “reactionary liberal,” and in the age of micro-discourses, if you pay attention to grand narratives, you are labeled a “dogmatic Marxist.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.193\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As history shows, no ruling class is ever the first to give up its vested interests for the good of society.\u003cbr\u003e They are reluctantly compromising so as not to lose everything.\u003cbr\u003e The Nordic welfare society was created by a powerful revolutionary labor movement that aimed to overcome capitalism, or more precisely, by a compromise between the many workers who participated in that labor movement and the ruling class who felt threatened by it.\u003cbr\u003e That is why that society is called a 'class compromise' system.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.214\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Change begins with ‘reopening the question.’ \u003cbr\u003eFor example, when everyone says, \"We are entering the age of artificial intelligence and robots,\" the question is, \"Why do humans need artificial intelligence and robots? Do humans exist for them, or do they exist for humans?\"\u003cbr\u003e When everyone says, \"We're entering a world where human labor is no longer necessary,\" the question is, \"Shouldn't all people have the right to work? Shouldn't it be working hours, not jobs, that should be reduced?\"\u003cbr\u003e Should homes and real estate be private property? Wouldn't it be better for everyone if large monopolies (chaebols, large corporations) were shared? Can the climate crisis be prevented under capitalism? Forgotten questions are being reopened, and new ones are emerging.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.234\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The 'commons' movement, which has been attracting attention recently, is a movement that aims for a sharing society.\u003cbr\u003e The key question will be whether this movement is targeting the most important targets of sharing. \u003cbr\u003eIf we talk about sharing in everyday life while avoiding the sharing of large monopoly capital, it is difficult to go beyond the play of some middle-class people trying to create a better world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.223\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Revolution is the self-liberation of the people.\u003cbr\u003e ‘Self-liberation’ does not mean that an individual liberates himself through his own power.\u003cbr\u003e No one can do that.\u003cbr\u003e No one else can free me.\u003cbr\u003e Self-liberation means that I am the subject of my own liberation.\u003cbr\u003e Other people can help me get out of this oppressed state.\u003cbr\u003e It is 'rescue', not liberation.\u003cbr\u003e Liberation begins with standing before the system that oppresses me, standing before the fact that I live within it in a way that does not love myself.\u003cbr\u003e And at some point, you come to the decision that 'I won't live like this anymore.'\u003cbr\u003e It is a moment of lightning-like 'metanoia'.\u003cbr\u003e The journey to self-liberation begins with metanoia.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e --- p.238\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e  \u003cdiv\u003eWe are convinced that living in a capitalist society is quite difficult, but at least it is better than previous societies.\u003cbr\u003e Not necessarily.\u003cbr\u003e In 13th-century England, serfs worked 31 hours a week.\u003cbr\u003e In today's terms, a serf would work about five hours a day, half of which he would work autonomously on his own means of production, and would be provided with free housing and guaranteed lifetime employment, passing on the housing and employment to his children.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.13\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Exploitation is legal and normal under capitalism.\u003cbr\u003e The phrase 'I wish for a world without exploitation' actually means 'I wish for the abolition of capitalism.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.38\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The reason why capitalists endlessly repeat the pursuit of profit and accumulation activities is because they are ‘personified capital’ before they are human beings.\u003cbr\u003e The soul of the capitalist is the soul of capital.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.44\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Jeff Bezos, the richest man in human history, has a net worth of 170 trillion won as of 2019. \u003cbr\u003eThis is the amount of money that a person earning 100 million won a year would have to save for 1.7 million years without spending a single penny of their wages.\u003cbr\u003e Whether Bezos can spend all that money or actually needs it is irrelevant to his activities as a capitalist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.45\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A wage slave is anyone who does not belong to the left side of the capitalist social relationship of 'capital versus wage labor.'\u003cbr\u003e Small business owners who cannot secure stable wages and become self-exploiting business owners who exploit themselves and their families are also wage slaves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.79\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In traditional slave societies, the proportion of slaves among the total population is approximately 30 percent.\u003cbr\u003e Capitalist society is an extreme form of slavery, where most people, called citizens, or the people, are wage slaves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e We often refer to the situation in which poor people have the legal right to freedom but have difficulty enjoying any of it as a 'state in which freedom is violated by economic inequality.' \u003cbr\u003eBut that is true capitalist freedom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.83\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Capital has no interest in 'civilizational' changes or distinctions such as whether labor is industrial or service labor, material or immaterial labor.\u003cbr\u003e The essence of the working class is ‘social relations.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.84\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Identity is not separate from class, but rather an extension of it.\u003cbr\u003e Class exploitation and oppression exist not only between capital and wage labor, but also between men and women, and between majorities and minorities.\u003cbr\u003e Also, minorities do not exist only as identities.\u003cbr\u003e The lower class people are also a major minority.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.93\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Current capitalist productivity is such that a 15-hour workweek is sufficient for most people to maintain a decent standard of living.\u003cbr\u003e However, the '15-hour workweek' is still a dream.\u003cbr\u003e Why don't working hours decrease?\u003cbr\u003e --- p.106\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eJust as primitive man did with natural phenomena, humans have a habit of dismissing things that are completely inexplicable as 'just the way they are'.\u003cbr\u003e For modern people who do not understand materialism, life under capitalism is no different from that of primitive people facing inexplicable natural phenomena.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.131\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Although he is very critical of capitalism, his life as an individual conforms to capitalism. The 'separation of knowledge and life' is not an ethical issue, but rather a natural phenomenon that occurs because his life is captured by fetishism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.134\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What makes capitalism special as a class society is that the ruling class is not the master.\u003cbr\u003e The only master is capital, that is, materialism.\u003cbr\u003e The ruling class is nothing more than a 'slave who has assumed the role of the ruling class', performing its role according to the orders and will of the material god. \u003cbr\u003eSuper capitalists in the Internet age are not just successful rich people, but are revered as revolutionaries and visionaries who change the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.135\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The more desperately we need freedom, the more difficult it is to discern its meaning.\u003cbr\u003e Freedom is misunderstood as liberal freedom, and democracy as bourgeois democracy.\u003cbr\u003e After a long struggle, freedom and democracy were achieved, and while everyone was celebrating, that is, while the sense of caution and restraint against capitalism was lifted, we very quickly rushed into a full-scale materialistic society.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.154\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It is not because Korea has become poorer than before that it has recorded the world's highest suicide rate and the world's lowest birth rate in just 20 years since democratization and that the younger generation has come to call their country \"hell (Hell Joseon).\"\u003cbr\u003e The problem is that we suddenly found ourselves living in an extremely materialistic society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Intellectuals are completely absorbed in grand narratives, but when errors or limitations are discovered, they return to micro-discourses. \u003cbr\u003eIt is difficult to find any proper criticism or reflection between these transitions.\u003cbr\u003e There is only the 'age of grand discourse' and the 'age of micro discourse'.\u003cbr\u003e In the age of grand narratives, if you pay attention to micro-discourses, you are labeled a “reactionary liberal,” and in the age of micro-discourses, if you pay attention to grand narratives, you are labeled a “dogmatic Marxist.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.193\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As history shows, no ruling class is ever the first to give up its vested interests for the good of society.\u003cbr\u003e They are reluctantly compromising so as not to lose everything.\u003cbr\u003e The Nordic welfare society was created by a powerful revolutionary labor movement that aimed to overcome capitalism, or more precisely, by a compromise between the many workers who participated in that labor movement and the ruling class who felt threatened by it.\u003cbr\u003e That is why that society is called a 'class compromise' system.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.214\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Change begins with ‘reopening the question.’ \u003cbr\u003eFor example, when everyone says, \"We are entering the age of artificial intelligence and robots,\" the question is, \"Why do humans need artificial intelligence and robots? Do humans exist for them, or do they exist for humans?\"\u003cbr\u003e When everyone says, \"We're entering a world where human labor is no longer necessary,\" the question is, \"Shouldn't all people have the right to work? Shouldn't it be working hours, not jobs, that should be reduced?\"\u003cbr\u003e Should homes and real estate be private property? Wouldn't it be better for everyone if large monopolies (chaebols, large corporations) were shared? Can the climate crisis be prevented under capitalism? Forgotten questions are being reopened, and new ones are emerging.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.234\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The 'commons' movement, which has been attracting attention recently, is a movement that aims for a sharing society.\u003cbr\u003e The key question is whether this movement is targeting the most important targets of sharing. \u003cbr\u003eIf we talk about sharing in everyday life while avoiding the sharing of large monopoly capital, it is difficult to go beyond the play of some middle-class people trying to create a better world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.223\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Revolution is the self-liberation of the people.\u003cbr\u003e ‘Self-liberation’ does not mean that an individual liberates himself through his own power.\u003cbr\u003e No one can do that.\u003cbr\u003e No one else can free me.\u003cbr\u003e Self-liberation means that I am the subject of my own liberation.\u003cbr\u003e Other people can help me get out of this oppressed state.\u003cbr\u003e It is 'rescue', not liberation.\u003cbr\u003e Liberation begins with standing before the system that oppresses me, standing before the fact that I live within it in a way that does not love myself.\u003cbr\u003e And at some point, you come to the decision that 'I won't live like this anymore.'\u003cbr\u003e It is a moment of lightning-like 'metanoia'.\u003cbr\u003e The journey to self-liberation begins with metanoia. \u003cbr\u003eWe are convinced that living in a capitalist society is quite difficult, but at least it is better than previous societies.\u003cbr\u003e Not necessarily.\u003cbr\u003e In 13th-century England, serfs worked 31 hours a week.\u003cbr\u003e In today's terms, a serf would work about five hours a day, half of which he would work autonomously on his own means of production, and would be provided with free housing and guaranteed lifetime employment, passing on the housing and employment to his children.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.13\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Exploitation is legal and normal under capitalism.\u003cbr\u003e The phrase 'I wish for a world without exploitation' actually means 'I wish for the abolition of capitalism.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.38\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The reason why capitalists endlessly repeat the pursuit of profit and accumulation activities is because they are ‘personified capital’ before they are human beings.\u003cbr\u003e The soul of the capitalist is the soul of capital.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.44\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Jeff Bezos, the richest person in human history, has a net worth of 170 trillion won as of 2019. \u003cbr\u003eThis is the amount of money that a person earning 100 million won a year would have to save for 1.7 million years without spending a single penny of their wages.\u003cbr\u003e Whether Bezos can spend all that money or actually needs it is irrelevant to his activities as a capitalist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.45\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A wage slave is anyone who does not belong to the left side of the capitalist social relationship of 'capital versus wage labor.'\u003cbr\u003e Small business owners who cannot secure stable wages and become self-exploiting business owners who exploit themselves and their families are also wage slaves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.79\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In traditional slave societies, the proportion of slaves among the total population is approximately 30 percent.\u003cbr\u003e Capitalist society is an extreme form of slavery, where most people, called citizens, or the people, are wage slaves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e We often refer to the situation in which poor people have the legal right to freedom but have difficulty enjoying any of it as a 'state in which freedom is violated by economic inequality.' \u003cbr\u003eBut that is true capitalist freedom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.83\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Capital has no interest in 'civilizational' changes or distinctions such as whether labor is industrial or service labor, material or immaterial labor.\u003cbr\u003e The essence of the working class is ‘social relations.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.84\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Identity is not separate from class, but rather an extension of it.\u003cbr\u003e Class exploitation and oppression exist not only between capital and wage labor, but also between men and women, and between majorities and minorities.\u003cbr\u003e Also, minorities do not exist only as identities.\u003cbr\u003e The lower class people are also a major minority.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.93\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Current capitalist productivity is such that a 15-hour workweek is sufficient for most people to maintain a decent standard of living.\u003cbr\u003e However, the '15-hour workweek' is still a dream.\u003cbr\u003e Why don't working hours decrease?\u003cbr\u003e --- p.106\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eJust as primitive man did with natural phenomena, humans have a habit of dismissing things that are completely inexplicable as 'just the way they are'.\u003cbr\u003e For modern people who do not understand materialism, life under capitalism is no different from that of primitive people facing inexplicable natural phenomena.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.131\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Although he is very critical of capitalism, his life as an individual conforms to capitalism. The 'separation of knowledge and life' is not an ethical problem, but rather a natural phenomenon that occurs because his life is captured by fetishism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.134\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What makes capitalism special as a class society is that the ruling class is not the master.\u003cbr\u003e The only master is capital, that is, materialism.\u003cbr\u003e The ruling class is nothing more than a 'slave who has assumed the role of the ruling class', performing its role according to the orders and will of the material god. \u003cbr\u003eSuper capitalists in the Internet age are not just successful rich people, but are revered as revolutionaries and visionaries who change the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.135\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The more desperately we need freedom, the more difficult it is to discern its meaning.\u003cbr\u003e Freedom is misunderstood as liberal freedom, and democracy as bourgeois democracy.\u003cbr\u003e After a long struggle, freedom and democracy were achieved, and while everyone was celebrating, that is, while the sense of caution and restraint against capitalism was lifted, we very quickly rushed into a full-scale materialistic society.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.154\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It is not because Korea has become poorer than before that it has recorded the world's highest suicide rate and the world's lowest birth rate in just 20 years since democratization and that the younger generation has come to call their country \"hell (Hell Joseon).\"\u003cbr\u003e The problem is that we suddenly found ourselves living in an extremely materialistic society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Intellectuals are completely absorbed in grand narratives, but when errors or limitations are discovered, they return to micro-discourses. \u003cbr\u003eIt is difficult to find any proper criticism or reflection between these transitions.\u003cbr\u003e There is only the 'age of grand discourse' and the 'age of micro discourse'.\u003cbr\u003e In the age of grand narratives, if you pay attention to micro-discourses, you are labeled a “reactionary liberal,” and in the age of micro-discourses, if you pay attention to grand narratives, you are labeled a “dogmatic Marxist.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.193\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As history shows, no ruling class is ever the first to give up its vested interests for the good of society.\u003cbr\u003e They are reluctantly compromising so as not to lose everything.\u003cbr\u003e The Nordic welfare society was created by a powerful revolutionary labor movement that aimed to overcome capitalism, or more precisely, by a compromise between the many workers who participated in that labor movement and the ruling class who felt threatened by it.\u003cbr\u003e That is why that society is called a 'class compromise' system.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.214\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Change begins with ‘reopening the question.’ \u003cbr\u003eFor example, when everyone says, \"We are entering the age of artificial intelligence and robots,\" the question is, \"Why do humans need artificial intelligence and robots? Do humans exist for them, or do they exist for humans?\"\u003cbr\u003e When everyone says, \"We're entering a world where human labor is no longer necessary,\" the question is, \"Shouldn't all people have the right to work? Shouldn't it be working hours, not jobs, that should be reduced?\"\u003cbr\u003e Should homes and real estate be private property? Wouldn't it be better for everyone if large monopolies (chaebols, large corporations) were shared? Can the climate crisis be prevented under capitalism? Forgotten questions are being reopened, and new ones are emerging.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.234\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The 'commons' movement, which has been attracting attention recently, is a movement that aims for a sharing society.\u003cbr\u003e The key question is whether this movement is targeting the most important targets of sharing. \u003cbr\u003eIf we talk about sharing in everyday life while avoiding the sharing of large monopoly capital, it is difficult to go beyond the play of some middle-class people trying to create a better world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.223\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Revolution is the self-liberation of the people.\u003cbr\u003e ‘Self-liberation’ does not mean that an individual liberates himself through his own power.\u003cbr\u003e No one can do that.\u003cbr\u003e No one else can free me.\u003cbr\u003e Self-liberation means that I am the subject of my own liberation.\u003cbr\u003e Other people can help me get out of this oppressed state.\u003cbr\u003e It is 'rescue', not liberation.\u003cbr\u003e Liberation begins with standing before the system that oppresses me, standing before the fact that I live within it in a way that does not love myself.\u003cbr\u003e And at some point, you come to the decision that 'I won't live like this anymore.'\u003cbr\u003e It is a moment of lightning-like 'metanoia'.\u003cbr\u003e The journey to self-liberation begins with metanoia.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e --- p.238\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003ePublisher's Review\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e  \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eRevolution is the construction and implementation of a new society.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 『Revolutionary Notes』 uses Marx's insights, especially the concept of 'fetishism', which has been widely disparaged, to penetrate the structure of today's capitalist society.\u003cbr\u003e The terminal signs of capitalism revealed today clearly show that this is an inherent part of our nature.\u003cbr\u003e As liberalism reaches its extreme, 'fetishism' also grows and grows by parasitizing on liberalism, and so revolution is impossible with only individual ethical awareness.\u003cbr\u003e Because no one, not even the so-called \"radical left,\" can escape fetishism in a capitalist society, readers are forced to confront the uncomfortable but clear truth that revolution from within is the only path to self-liberation and freedom.\u003cbr\u003e However, 『Revolutionary Notes』 is not a book that is only uncomfortable. \u003cbr\u003eThat's because there's still a glimmer of hope within the sentences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Now, 『Revolutionary Notes』 explores how to overcome the capitalist social system and moves toward a \"new society\" where everyone can live as free individuals.\u003cbr\u003e Because revolution is the construction and transition of a new society.\u003cbr\u003e The new society is based on private ownership and sharing, a world where all current values ​​are turned upside down.\u003cbr\u003e There is no such thing as a 'class' where no one has to work for others.\u003cbr\u003e 『Revolutionary Notes』 is convinced that “the people are the masters of the history that liberates them and the masters of the history that forces them into a life of slavery.”\u003cbr\u003e So, let's support the people, who are \"the only ones who can make a revolution without starving or being beaten, if they are not free.\" \u003cbr\u003eReferring to the spiritual term 'Metanoia', it reminds us to fight and show solidarity for a new society, just as Jesus declared that we must be reborn as new people to enter the Kingdom of God.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMoments of Insight from \"Revolutionary Notes\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Revolutionary Notes\" offers moments of insight as it transcends several of the complex and tangled problems that capitalist society struggles to resolve.\u003cbr\u003e This is the case when he explains the distorted perception of 'how Northern Europe became Northern Europe' and defines the view that revolution is an anachronism as an obsession based on stereotypes.\u003cbr\u003e “The revolution of today must be different from the revolution of the era when blue-collar labor and absolute poverty represented the working class.\u003cbr\u003e However, the point is that under capitalism, there is always no reform in a society where there is no sign of revolution.” \u003cbr\u003eThe same goes for the part that criticizes the existing revolutionary theory that recent left-wing populism is also repeating.\u003cbr\u003e It is a mistake to view the people as objects of agitation, mobilization, and collectivization, and the key is the people's self-liberation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The criticism of postmodernism, Korean intellectual society, and '21st century communism' as a pastime for some intellectuals is also notable.\u003cbr\u003e While examining the Western left-wing intellectuals who were disintegrated and subsumed by the shock of advanced capitalism and the material world that began in the mid-20th century in a historical context, he writes that “their intellectual bankruptcy has not yet been recovered from, and ultimately, as seen in the recent ‘86 problem,’ discussions remain at the level of ‘ethics’ or ‘generation.’” \u003cbr\u003eIn addition, he points out that in a situation where the cultural industry has replaced art, it is essential to be discerning about the Korean Wave; that in the issue of regular and irregular workers in large corporations, the labor aristocracy is not a corruption of ethics but merely “another class attribute of workers”; that when we cling to the classic image of the working class, we call the precariat the “true working class” but that this is likely to degenerate into a “left-wing, left-leaning movement”; and that basic income is also a right-wing idea that strengthens materialism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe endless echo, the sound of revolution\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 『Revolutionary Notes』 is a book composed of 119 short essays divided into 10 chapters.\u003cbr\u003e The 119 concise articles are followed by further commentary or citations. \u003cbr\u003eAlthough it is recommended to read the main narrative and supporting narrative (in the form of commentary or main text) together, the 119 fragments have an open structure that allows one to grasp their own argument even if read out of order.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It unfolds in an integrated and grand way, encompassing humanity from its beginning to its future, from one end of the Earth to the other, while its sharpened pen tip does not miss 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