• “For Lefebvre formal, legal rights are never God-given, nor are they natural rights that the framers of constitutions simply write down. Rather rights are always the outcome of political struggle. They are the manifestation, the end result of collective claims made by mobilized citizens. Because they result from struggle, they are always subject to further struggle, to renewed political agitation.”

This statement particularly stood out to me because I could not agree with it more. Legal rights have to be recognized because what some people might believe should be a right, others might not have even thought about. We all go through different experiences in life and we all have rights we take advantage of and other rights we might not care for much. Well just because a group of people do not care for them much does not mean those rights should not exist or they are not important. They should most definitely exist because it is a right another group of people need and have struggled to get. What he means by “subject to further struggle” is that once a group of people move past fighting for a certain right and they get it, they find something else to fight for. Not because they just don’t have anything else to do; it’s because as time goes by and the world changes and people realize more things they need, people start to brain storm and come up with rights they want to make their’s and many others like them, lives easier.

  • “As autogestion develops, as it becomes generalized throughout society, people increasingly realize their own power. They come to see themselves as perfectly capable of managing their affairs on their own.“

Autogestion or self-management gives people more freedom rather than relying or working under the government’s rules. The government gives people more freedom so that they don’t feel like the government is behind their backs everywhere they are. This is like a checks and balances kind of thing. The government controls almost every aspect of your legal life but when it come to your personal life and work, you can manage that on your own; you can make your own rules.

  • “Lefebvre understood the city to be profoundly shaped by industrial capitalism.”

Clearly they were cities before industrialization even existed, but he clearly is talking about our generation now. Now cities rely heavily on industrialization. The world relies on industrialization. Sure there were cities and states and countries who were well off without industrial capitalism, but they were not as successful and productive as we are now.