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“Once the philosophical foundation of democracy has collapsed, the statement that dictatorship is bad is rationally valid only for those who are not its beneficiaries, and there is no theoretical obstacle to the transformation of this statement into its opposite.”

Max Horkheimer

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Whoever is not prepared to talk about capitalism should also remain silent about fascism,

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Reason as an organ for perceiving the true nature of reality and determining the guiding principles of our lives has come to be regarded…

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Subjective reason ... is inclined to abandon the fight with religion by setting up two different brackets, one for science and philosophy, and one…

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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.

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In the nature of our existence, we must act to achieve values. And in order to act appropriately, we need to value the beneficiary…

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I had gone into the hospital with the stupid notion that its primary object was the care and comfort of the sick and wounded.…

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Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors,…

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