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It is again the wonderful irony of history: China alone is still to be conquered for capitalist production, and in so doing at long last the latter makes its own existence at home impossible. -Engles, letter to Kautsky 1894

On one side, capitalists hate the state as it interferes with the economic dispositions of capital; however, on the other side, capital needs the state to mitigate its contradictions and administer is expansion. pp. 281

The old politicians in the Global North are desperately seeking to overcome the gap between the need for transnational capital for continued neoliberal globalization and a growing desire of the electorate to return to the capitalist nation-based welfare state. -Torkil Lauesen pp.356

If the transnational companies wanted access to chinas labor force and infrastructure, then China demanded access to the technology and science behind production. pp.271

He had the intellectual’s vice; he was futile. The fellow knew too much and it confused him. He had to resort to a lot of tricks to kindle his own enthusiasm, to make up his mind.

• Journey to the End of the Night pp.67