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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…
• The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate…
• The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving…
• Far from being reluctantly propelled into hostilities by popular war fever, leaders incite that fever in order to gather support for their…
• The conservative goal has been the Third Worldization of the United States: an increasingly underemployed, lower-wage work-force; a small but growing moneyed…
• No system in history capitalism has been more relentless in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, devouring the resources of whole regions,…
• The first law of the market is to make the largest possible profit from other people's labor or go out of business.…
• Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness.
• In societies that worship money and success, the losers become objects of scorn. Those who work the hardest for the least are…
• Only by establishing military supremacy were the European and North American colonizers able to eliminate the crafts and industries of Third World…
• Capital requires protection, as do the institutions through which it operates. As capital expands its operations, the state that is associated with…
• 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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