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Theory of the Partisan: Intermediate Commentary on the Concept of the Political

by Carl Schmitt

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Oct 25, 2026 04:05PM

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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1

by Karl Marx

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Maddie’s Quotes

“The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.”
― C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

tags: french-revolution, haiti, haitian-revolution, san-domingo

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“I’ve learned less about people, since their destiny interests me more than their reactions, and destinies tend to repeat each other.”
― Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays

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“For there is no sex. There is but sex that is oppressed and sex that oppresses. It is oppression that creates sex and not the contrary.”
― Monique Wittig, The Straight Mind: And Other Essays

tags: feminism, gender, misogyny, politics, sex, sexism

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“Men are good more than they are evil, and honestly, that's beside the point.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

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“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee? But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
― Albert Camus, A Happy Death

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