Alfredo Ávila

“Vivimos como si la memoria fuese una consigna de equipajes bien construida y atendida por un personal eficiente.”
― Julian Barnes, Nada que temer

“Marx here saw all production up to that point as alienated. Alienation did not begin with capitalism, or even with feudalism. It has been the companion of humanity ever since the beginning. He did not, as is often asserted, have any notion of an Edenic primitive condition.”
― Sven-Eric Liedman, A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx

“La conception populiste de la démocratie présente sur cette base trois caractéristiques. Elle entend d’abord privilégier la démocratie directe, en appelant notamment à multiplier les référendums d’initiative populaire ; elle défend ensuite le projet d’une démocratie polarisée, dénonçant le caractère non démocratique des autorités non élues et des cours constitutionnelles. Elle exalte enfin, et c’est le point nodal, une conception immédiate et spontanée de l’expression populaire.”
― Pierre Rosanvallon, Le Siècle du populisme: Histoire, théorie, critique

“He thus uncovered an important aspect of the dynamic in various kinds of differences of opinion. It is the close neighbour who is the most hated opponent, while those on the other end of the scale of opinion were not perceived as competitors.24 The idea of la petite différence – the small difference between opinions and orientations that, seen from outside, lie very close to each other – most recently goes back to Sigmund Freud’s 1932 book Das Unbehagen in der Kultur (Civilization and Its Discontents), and is used more often in psychology and religious research than as regards political ideologies.”
― Sven-Eric Liedman, A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx