Percell Notable Quaotations
- “The initiatives here are diverse, but in the main their goal is to argue that the right to the city should be seen as a human right, and that governments must honor that right and guarantee it for their citizens (Mayer, 2012).”(Para.8).
- I find this quote to be interesting. The idea that the main goal of a city is to serve its citizens is such a simple concept, but difficult to imagine. There always seems as though someone is being oppressed, but that the city does not want to relieve their stress. If one looks at the bigger picture, the city does seem to want to be better in a sense (cause then why would a potential elected official run?).
- ” So it is important to be clear just what Lefebvre understood socialism to be. It is not at all a bureaucratic socialism in which the state is seized and dominated by a workers’ party. Rather, as we will see, his socialism insists on the withering away of the state and the collective self-governing of society.”(Para. 14).
- I find it interesting in how the author defines Lefebvre theory himself instead of taking Lefebvre’s theory from the primary source. This shows that the other is up for interpretation within these guidelines and has a deeper understanding of Lefebvre’s concepts and willing to explain such to the audience. This (for me) increases Percell’s ethos.
- “Today, as a Marxist,” he declares, “I FULLY RECOGNIZE the necessity of the dictatorship of the proletariat” (2009, p. 87). However, prompted by his strident critique of Stalinism, Lefebvre is adamant that this dictatorship cannot be imposed by a vanguard party that has seized the state. Rather its control of society must emerge spontaneously from below. For that reason, even though he retains the term, he is talking less about what we would call a dictatorship and more about a situation in which the emergent power of the proletariat comes to pervade society and displace bourgeois rule.”(Para. 22)
- I find it interesting how Lefebvre would use the term “dictator” but not actually mean such (according the Percell). If Lefebvre actually meant what Percell, says then he should develop more on such because without context clues, it just sounds as if Lefebvre is admiring dictatorships. The explination is not as severe. I just found it interesting.