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"Love the book... just am very busy with semester requirements! :)" — Nov 12, 2015 03:35PM
"Love the book... just am very busy with semester requirements! :)" — Nov 12, 2015 03:35PM
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Martin Screeton said:
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Unless you are interested in childhood behavior... leave this OFF your reading and/or study list. This one is about as exciting as blank paper.
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“Our leaders keep saying phrases like, “Let the market decide.” or “The market will get to the efficient outcome.” Really? The market is a very flawed institution that does not deserve the nearly religious kind of endorsement of it that our leaders are eager to provide over and over again.”
― The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself
― The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself
“Within the last thirty years, the United States under the reign of market fundamentalism has been transformed into a society that is more about forgetting than learning, more about consuming than producing, more about asserting private interests than democratic rights.”
― Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education
― Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education
“Greed is not the cause of capitalists' behavior; it is a quality they acquire in accommodating to and internalizing the requirements of competitive survival within the capitalist system.”
― Understanding Marxism
― Understanding Marxism
“For Rousseau, ‘the word finance is a slave’s word’ and freedom turns into a commodity, degrading buyer and seller alike, wherever commerce reigns. ‘Financial systems make venal souls.’ Their secret workings are a ‘means of making pilferers and traitors, and of putting freedom and the public good upon the auction block’.”
― Age of Anger: A History of the Present
― Age of Anger: A History of the Present
“No man can be fully a man unless he comes to terms with the female double within him. So too, with women and their male shadows. Those who do not know their sexual counterparts are absurd caricatures of the identities to which they aspire. Not knowing the hidden other within themselves, they hate and distrust the opposite sex.”
― If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him! The Pilgrimage of Psychotherapy Patients
― If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him! The Pilgrimage of Psychotherapy Patients
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