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The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of…
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The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate…
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The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving…
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Far from being reluctantly propelled into hostilities by popular war fever, leaders incite that fever in order to gather support for their…
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The conservative goal has been the Third Worldization of the United States: an increasingly underemployed, lower-wage work-force; a small but growing moneyed…
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No system in history capitalism has been more relentless in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, devouring the resources of whole regions,…
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The first law of the market is to make the largest possible profit from other people's labor or go out of business.…
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Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness.
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In societies that worship money and success, the losers become objects of scorn. Those who work the hardest for the least are…
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Only by establishing military supremacy were the European and North American colonizers able to eliminate the crafts and industries of Third World…
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Capital requires protection, as do the institutions through which it operates. As capital expands its operations, the state that is associated with…
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A huge national security state has developed in the United States since World War II. Its function is to buttress anticommunist, procapitalist…
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The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal…
— Emily Greene Balch
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Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under my notice.…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Can it be believed that the democracy which overthrew the feudal system and vanquished kings will retreat before tradesmen and capitalists?
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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As soon as politicians start climbing up the ladder, they suddenly become kings. I don't know how it works, but what I…
— Jose Mujica
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Just as the power of the feudal aristocracy had to be broken in order for capitalism to emerge fully, so must imperialism…
— Michael Parenti
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The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned…
— Kim Stanley
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It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
— Henry A. Kissinger
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All women should inform themselves of the condition of their sex and of their own position. It must necessarily follow that the…
— Harriet Martineau
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Firstly, the farmers, the most stupid set of people in existence, who, clinging to feudal prejudices, burst forth in masses, ready to…
— Friedrich Engels
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The body's habituation to walking as normal stems from the good olddays. It was the bourgeois form of locomotion: physicaldemythologization, free of…
— Theodor Adorno
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We overthrew the feudal system in the 1600s, and the theocracy in the 1700s. But currently, corporations play similar roles in many…
— John Battelle
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Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with…
— Hervey Allen
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