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Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
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The Straussian Moment
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This is to my mind the essence of right-wing thought: a political ontology that through such subtle means allows violence to define the very parameters of social existence and common sense.
David Graeber • The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
Unreasonable distributions of wealth have always turned their fire on reason.
Matthew Stewart • An Emancipation of the Mind
He feared that the higher ideals of the Enlightenment were “irretrievably lost†and that only the imperative of “economic compulsion†would prevail.