Lena

“Parliament may be ultimately accountable to its electorate, but the 'people' are not truly sovereign. For all intents and purposes, there is no politics - or at least no legitimate politics - outside Parliament. Indeed, the more inclusive the 'people' has become, the more the dominant political ideologies - from Conservative to mainstream Labour - have insisted on depoliticising the world outside Parliament and delegitimating 'extra-parliamentary' politics.”
― Ellen Meiksins Wood, The Ellen Meiksins Wood Reader

“Liberalism's thought is quite liberal with the chaos of its idealist contents.”
― Jun Tosaka, The Japanese Ideology: A Marxist Critique of Liberalism and Fascism

“The retreat of race prejudice has begun. Sad though it may be, that is the way humanity progresses. The anniversary orators and the historians supply the prose-poetry and the flowers.”
― C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

“How exactly should we envisage the process whereby a movement, mobilised precisely on the basis of its abstraction from the prevailing conditions of class and class-interest and a deliberate detachment of its aims from a fundamental challenge to the existing structure of social relations and domination, might be transformed into a stable collective forces directed against those class-conditions and that structure of domination? Unless, of course, the movement itself becomes the terrain of class-struggle.”
― Ellen Meiksins Wood, The Ellen Meiksins Wood Reader