"It is ironic that people of modest means……" — Michael Parenti
"It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support."
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- Far from being reluctantly propelled into hostilities by popular war fever, leaders incite that fever in order to gather support…
- The conservative goal has been the Third Worldization of the United States: an increasingly underemployed, lower-wage work-force; a small but…
- No system in history capitalism has been more relentless in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, devouring the resources of…
- The first law of the market is to make the largest possible profit from other people's labor or go out…
- 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…
- Only by establishing military supremacy were the European and North American colonizers able to eliminate the crafts and industries of…
- Capital requires protection, as do the institutions through which it operates. As capital expands its operations, the state that is…
- A huge national security state has developed in the United States since World War II. Its function is to buttress…
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