Roland Barthes Quotes:
Ocupation: Philosopher
Life: November 12, 1915 - March 25, 1980
Birthday: November 12
Death: March 25
Ensnared in his starvation, Chaplin-man is always just below political awareness. A strike is a catastrophe for him because it threatens a man truly blinded by his hunger; this man achieves an awareness of the working-class condition only when the poor man and the proletarian coincide under the gaze (and the blows) of the police.
source: Roland Barthes (1973). “Mythologies”
topic: Blow, Men, Class, Chaplin, Blinded, Political Awareness
