Guide 2.

Unlike leninism, Dada promised nothing, no utopia, but also no end to strife, no rest. The work of Dada is interminable, consisting inevitably of change. If Tzara and his fellow dadaists had been motivated by anything other than being, they would have promised something at the end of Work. Something, anything: immortality, a better society, an escape, a half-life after death, a lazy pantheism. They promised nothing, but in so doing they discovered the secret of putting the “people of the future” to work, so that that they might reinvent Dada every time they felt the unbearable pressure of “reality” closing in, the boot of techne on their neck.