"There will be no future without war, poverty, Malthusian panics, tyranny, bestiality, classes, dead time, and all the evils that burden the flesh, because there will be no future - period. Only a present in which the left (always besieged and marginalized, always - and proudly - a thing of the past) will strive to gather the 'material for a society' that Nietzsche believed has been lost from the face of the earth. And this is a recipe for politics, not for tranquility: for a left that can look the world in the face."

(T. J. Clark)

"Indeed, we must think of politics in a tragic tone, denying the immunity of political ideas against their contradictory forms of realization, but we can only do this if we connect the tragic with the historical form of collective action, not with the unchangeable nature of humanity. For this purpose, we need to resist the temptation to see the tragic as a way to give up any attempt to think about structural causality and political strategies. Tragedy does not need to be associated with the kind of strategic and epistemological nihilism that banishes the idea in the face of the complex reality of social and political destruction."

(Alberto Toscano)