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“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.”
― The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
― The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
“A use-value, or useful article, therefore, has value only because abstract human labour is objectified or materialized in it. How, then, is the magnitude of value to be measured? By means of the quantity of the "value-forming substance", the labour, contained in the article. This quantity is measured by its duration, and the labour-time is itself measured on the particular scale of hours, days etc.”
― Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1
― Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1
“Liberalism's thought is quite liberal with the chaos of its idealist contents.”
― The Japanese Ideology: A Marxist Critique of Liberalism and Fascism
― The Japanese Ideology: A Marxist Critique of Liberalism and Fascism
“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.”
― The Ellen Meiksins Wood Reader
― The Ellen Meiksins Wood Reader
“Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. And just as they seem to be occupied with revolutionizing themselves and things, creating something that did not exist before, precisely in such epochs of revolutionary crisis they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service, borrowing from them names, battle slogans, and costumes in order to present this new scene in world history in time-honored disguise and borrowed language.”
― The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
― The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
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