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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
Torkil Lauesen - The Long Transition Towards Socialism and the End of Capitalism
As long as elites empathize deeply with immigrants while judging and dismissing middle-status people’s pain, we won’t help immigrants.
Meagan Day • The Left Has to Speak to Average American Values — or Perish
Proudhon: What is Property?
youtube.comThe right to product is exclusive, the right to means is common. Everything is really only borrowed.
And then when you ask yourself the question, how is it, for instance, that healthcare has become less and less affordable in this country, more and more people are being dispossessed of the right to healthcare? You ask yourself the question, who is getting rich in this situation? Well, it’s those very, very small elite who are getting so much money... See more
On Neoliberalism: An Interview with David Harvey | MR Online
In Western discourse, it is claimed that democracy and liberal market capitalism are linked together as conjoined twins. However, liberal capitalism thrives when linked with fascism, as we have seen in Nazi Ger-many, Franco's Spain, and Pinoche's Chile.
If the development of liberal democracy is linked to something, then it is linked to colonialism.
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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
Fatal Deviation (1998) Full Movie
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Patriotism
Work under capitalism alienated individuals from themselves since work is no longer a joy, but simply a means to earn wages to survive