Private property has made us so stupid and inert that an object is ours only when we have it.”
“All the physical and intellectual senses… have been replaced by the simple alienation of all these senses, the sense of having.
“All the physical and intellectual senses… have been replaced by the simple alienation of all these senses, the sense of having.
— Marx, Nationalökonomie und Philosophie, quoted in Benjamin, Arcades Project (210)