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We seem to be in the midst of a process of cascading bifurcations that may last some 50 more years. We can be sure some…

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We can tentatively credit capitalist civilization with a positive, if very geographically uneven, record in the struggle against disease.
On the one hand, there has been a remarkable expansion of the total production and productivity of food production, and on the…
Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence.…
The very concept of universal formal education is a product (and a relatively late product) of the capitalist world-economy.
The basic question that the 'new science' raises for our balance sheet is the issue of what scientific questions have not been…
What is different in capitalist civilization has been two things. First, the process of meritocracy has been proclaimed as an official virtue…
A second variety concentrated on presumed major transformations of the capitalist system as of some recent point in time, in which the…
Capitalism is first and foremost a historical social system.
What distinguishes the historical social system we are calling historical capitalism is that in this historical system capital came to be used…
An individual or a group of individuals might of course decide at any time that they would like to invest capital with…
But even in the absence of direct interference by those who had the power to interfere, the process was usually aborted by…
That is why we may say that the historical development of capitalism has involved the thrust towards the commodification of everything.

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And now when we hear that Iran and Iraq plan to cooperate more closely and that a fundamentalist is coming to power… — Otto Schily
We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the… — Havelock Ellis
We seem to be in the midst of a process of cascading bifurcations that may last some 50 more years. We can… — Immanuel Wallerstein
From what deep springs of character our personal philosophies issue, we cannot be sure. In philosophers themselves we seem always able to… — William Barrett
In this financial year we will be spending at least $1.5 billion on foreign aid and we cannot be sure that this… — Pauline Hanson
We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it. — Che Guevara
It is pretty clear that they are ineffective in stopping the course of thought at present, but they have not always been… — John Desmond Bernal

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