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André Gorz, de son vrai nom Gérard Horst, né Gerhart Hirsch le 9 février 1923 à Vienne et mort le 22 septembre 2007 à Vosnon , est un philosophe et journaliste français.

Sa pensée oscille entre philosophie, théorie politique et critique sociale. Disciple de l'existentialisme de Jean-Paul Sartre, puis admirateur d'Ivan Illich, il devient dans les années 1970 l'un des principaux théoriciens de l'écologie politique et de la décroissance. Il est cofondateur en 1964 du Nouvel Observateur, sous le pseudonyme de Michel Bosquet, avec Jean Daniel. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. février 1923 – 22. septembre 2007
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“Nous savons que, depuis cent cinquante ans, les sociétés industrialisantes vivent du pillage accéléré de stocks dont la constitution a demandé des dizaines de millions d'années et que, jusqu'à ces tout derniers temps, les économistes, qu'ils fussent classiques ou marxistes, ont rejeté comme « régressives » ou comme « réactionnaires » les questions concernant l'avenir à très long terme : celui de la planète, celui de la biosphère, celui des civilisations.”

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“La pauvreté ne disparaîtra que si disparaît l'inégalité des pouvoirs et des droits qui en est la source principale. En effet, la différenciation par la consommation n'est souvent que le moyen d'affirmer la hiérarchie sociale. A la limite, son seul et unique but est de constituer les autres en pauvres sans rien accaparer qui soit désirable en lui même. C'est le cas, par exemple, de la consommation de bijoux précieux ou d'articles de haute mode. Ces consommations distinctives ne procurent même plus une jouissance, un pouvoir ou un confort : elles manifestent simplement le pouvoir d'accéder à des choses qui ne sont pas à la portée de tous. la seule fonction de ces choses est de rendre l'inégalité sociale tangible.”

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“La décroissance est donc un impératif de survie. Mais elle suppose une autre économie, un autre style de vie, une autre civilisation, d’autres rapports sociaux. [.. ]La sortie du capitalisme a déjà commencé sans être encore voulue consciemment. La question porte seulement sur la forme qu’elle va prendre et la cadence à laquelle elle va s’opérer.”

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“L'emploi du temps n'est plus le temps de l'emploi.”

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« Gorz, bourreau du travail » (entretien), Libération, 25 septembre 1997, cité in

“L’utopie ne consiste pas, aujourd’hui, à préconiser le bien-être par la décroissance et la subversion de l’actuel mode de vie; l’utopie consiste à croire que la croissance de la production sociale peut encore apporter le mieux-être, et qu’elle est matériellement possible.”

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“Nous pouvons vivre mieux en produisant moins.”

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Critique de la division du travail, 1973

André Gorz: Citations en anglais

“When the production process demands less work and distributes less and less wages, it gradually becomes obvious that the right to an income can no longer be reserved for those who have a job; nor, most importantly, can the level of incomes be made to depend on the quantity of work furnished by each person. Hence the idea of guaranteeing an income to every citizen which is not linked to work, or the quantity of work done.”

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p. 203 https://books.google.com/books?id=WbpvDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA203
Critique of Economic Reason, 1988

“At the very point when a privileged fraction of the working class seems to be in a position to acquire multiple skills, to achieve workplace autonomy and continually widen their capacities for action - all of which are things that were ideals of the worker self-management currents within the labour movement - the meaning of this ideal is thus radically altered by the conditions in which it seems destined to be fulfilled. It is not the working class which is achieving these possibilities of self-organization and increasing technological power; it is a small core of privileged workers who are integrated into new-style enterprises at the expense of a mass of people who are marginalized and whose job security is destroyed -people shunted from one form of occasional, unrewarding and uninteresting employment to another, who are often reduced to competing for the privilege of selling personal services (including shoe-shining and house-cleaning) to those who retain a secure income.”

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pp, 70-71 https://books.google.com/books?id=WbpvDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA70
Critique of Economic Reason, 1988

“The ideology of work and the ethics of effort therefore become cover for ultra-competitive egoism and careerism: the best succeed, the others have only themselves to blame; hard work should be encouraged and rewarded, which therefore means we should not subsidize the unemployed, the poor and all the other 'layabouts.'”

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This ideology (which in Europe finds its most overt expression in Thatcherism) is strictly rational, as far as capitalism is concerned: the aim to motivate a workforce which cannot easily be replaced (for the moment, at least) and control it ideologically for want of a means of controlling it physically. In order to do this, it must preserve the work-force's adherence to the work ethic, destroy the relations of solidarity that could bind it to the less fortunate, and persuade it that by doing as much work as possible it will best serve the collective interest as well as its own private interests. It will thus be necessary to conceal the fact that. there is an increasing structural glut of workers and an increasing structural shortage of secure, full-time jobs; in short, that the economy no longer needs everyone to work - and will do so less and less. And that; as a consequence, the 'society of work' is obsolete: work can no longer serve as the basis for social integration. But, to conceal these facts it is necessary to find alternative explanations for the rise in unemployment" and the decrease in job security. It will thus be asserted that casual labourers and the unemployed are not serious about looking for work; do not possess adequate skills, are encouraged to be idle by over~ generous dole payments and so on. And, it will be added, these people are all paid far too much for the little they are able to do, with the result that the economy, which is groaning under the weight of these excessive burdens, is no longer buoyant enough to create a growing number of jobs. And the conclusion will be reached that, 'To end unemployment, we have to work more.'

pp. 69-70 https://books.google.com/books?id=WbpvDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA69
Critique of Economic Reason, 1988

“The image of the enterprise as a place where employees can achieve personal fulfilment is therefore an essentially ideological invention. It conceals the real transformations that have taken place, namely that enterprises are replacing labour by machines, producing more and better with a decreasing percentage of the workforce previously employed, and offering privileges to a chosen elite of workers, which are accompanied by unemployment, precarious employment, de-skilling and lack of job security for the majority. The advance of technology has thus resulted in the segmentation and disintegration of the working class. An elite has been won over to collaboration with capital in the name of work ethic; the great mass of workers have become marginalized or lost their job security and serve as a reserve army for industry which wishes to be able to adjust its workforce rapidly according to fluctuations in demand.”

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p. 66 https://books.google.com/books?id=WbpvDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA66
Critique of Economic Reason, 1988

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