one over many, of the dead o’er the living, of matter over spirit; I will break the power of the mighty, of law, of property. Be his own will the lord of man, his own desire his only law, his strength his whole possession, for the only holiness is the free man, and naught higher there is than he. (…)
{FEUER} Annulled be the fancy that gives Death power over Life, the Past oe’r the Future. The law of the dead is their own law; it shares their lot, and dies with them; it shall not govern Life. [398W-{4/49} The Revolution: PW Vol. VIII, p. 235-236]
[399W-{4/49} The Revolution: PW Vol. VIII, p. 236]
[P. 236] {FEUER} “Annulled be the fancy that makes man bondslave to his handiwork, to property. Man’s highest good is his fashioning force, the fount whence springs all happiness forever; and not in the created, in the act of creation itself, in the exercise of your powers lies your true highest enjoyment. Man’s work is lifeless; the living shall not bind itself to what is lifeless, not make itself a thrall to that.” [399W-{4/49} The Revolution: PW Vol. VIII, p. 236]
[400W-{4/49} The Revolution: PW Vol. VIII, p. 237]
[P. 237] {FEUER} “I will destroy this order of things, that cuts enjoyment off from labour, makes labor a load (Last), enjoyment a vice (Laster) … .” [400W-{4/49} The Revolution: PW Vol. VIII, p. 237]
[401W-{5/17/49} Letter to Eduard Devrient: SLRW, p. 150]
[P. 150] “… the true, victorious revolutionary can desire only destruction, and his unique strength will be his hatred, not the love which guides us.” [401W-{5/17/49} Letter to Eduard Devrient: SLRW, p. 150]
[402W-{6-8/49} Art and Revolution: PW Vol. I, p. 34]
[P. 34] {FEUER} “To see the most pregnant of all tragedies, the ‘Prometheus’, came they; in this Titanic masterpiece to see the image of themselves, to read the riddle of their own actions … .” [402W-{6-8/49} Art and Revolution: PW Vol. I, p. 34]
[403W-{6-8/49} Art and Revolution: PW Vol. I, p. 35-36]
[P. 35] {FEUER} “Or else it was, that Art entered on the service of one or other of those abstract ideas or even conventions which, now lighter and now more heavily, weighed down a suffering humanity and cast in fetters the freedom both of individuals and communities. But never more was she the free expression of a free community. Yet true Art is highest freedom, and only the highest freedom can bring her forth from out itself; no [P. 36] commandment, no ordinance, No aim apart from Art, can call her to arise.” [403W-{6-8/49} Art and Revolution: PW Vol. I, p. 35-36]
