ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the conception of time and its subject is the time of the state form and the time of insubordination. The state form is itself a moment of the capitalist constitution of time. The rupture of this time-form is of fundamental importance in the anti-capitalist struggle for social autonomy. The chapter argues that class struggle produces, in antagonism to capital's conception of time, its own temporality- a time of human dignity and therewith a time of individual human needs. Revolutionary conceptions that leave this important dimension aside expose themselves to a reifying impoverishment. Revolutionary practice has to guard itself against the danger of such impoverishment, especially the fetish of revolution as progress and the myth that temporality is subsumed in the state form. In capitalism, the social context of human existence makes itself effective behind the backs of the individualised individual.
