Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

In modern society, capitalism is the only barrier to the spontaneous totalitarianism of the industrial system. Escolios a un Texto Implícito...

Where even the last vestige of feudal ties disappears, the increasing social isolation of the individual and his increasing helplessness fus...

From behind the “will of all” the “general will” pokes its head out. A “will” that is not volition, in reality, but a program. The program o...

Nothing more ominous than the 19th century’s enthusiasm for the “unity,” the “solidarity,” the “unanimity” of the human race. Sentimental sk...

In order to transform the idea of the “social contract” into an eminently democratic thesis, one needs the sophism of suffrage. Where one su...

The worst totalitarianism is not that of a state or a nation, but of society: society as the all-encompassing goal of all goals. Escolios a ...

Individualism is not the antithesis of totalitarianism but a condition of it. Totalitarianism and hierarchy, on the other hand, are termina...

Socialism arose as nostalgia for the social unity destroyed by bourgeois atomism. But it did not understand that social unity is not the to...

He who longs for “perfect communication” among individuals, their reciprocal “perfect transparency,” their mutual “perfect possession,” as a...

Democracy has terror for its means and totalitarianism for its end. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 252

Totalitarianism is the sinister fusion of religion and the state. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 241

The state is totalitarian by its essence. Total despotism is the form towards which it spontaneously tends. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: S...

Totalitarian society is the common name for the social species whose scientific name is industrial society. The embryo today allows us to f...

A totalitarian state is the structure into which societies crystallize under demographic pressures. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección...