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“Especially in times of unrest, it is advantageous for these corporations if the masses are angrier at one another for not masking or distancing than they are at those above them in the economic hierarchy.”
― The Viral Underclass: How Racism, Ableism and Capitalism Plague Humans on the Margins
― The Viral Underclass: How Racism, Ableism and Capitalism Plague Humans on the Margins
“Engel’s theory of false consciousness, which encourages workers not to see themselves through the eyes of their actual circumstances, but through the prism of aspirational fantasies the ruling class wants them to believe.”
― The Viral Underclass: How Racism, Ableism and Capitalism Plague Humans on the Margins
― The Viral Underclass: How Racism, Ableism and Capitalism Plague Humans on the Margins
“Though he was a five-star general and had commanded the D-Day invasion during World War II, by 1953, in his “Chance for Peace” speech after the death of Joseph Stalin, Eisenhower would go on to say that “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense” is “a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities.”45”
― The Overseer Class: A Manifesto – Understanding the Faustian Bargain for Minoritized Leaders in Powerful Institutions
― The Overseer Class: A Manifesto – Understanding the Faustian Bargain for Minoritized Leaders in Powerful Institutions