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We Used to Live Here

by Marcus Kliewer (Goodreads Author)

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Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1

by Karl Marx

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“It is useful to remember that no matter where we turn, there is rarely any shortage of elevated ideals to accompany the resort to violence.”
― Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance

tags: imperialism, politics, rhetoric

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“We forget that, although each of the liberties which have been won must be defended with utmost vigour, the problem of freedom is not only a quantitative one, but a qualitative one; that we not only have to preserve and increase the traditional freedom, but that we have to gain a new kind of freedom, one which enables us to realize our own individual self; to have faith in this self and in life.”
― Erich Fromm, The Fear of Freedom

tags: freedom

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“They declare that it is unpatriotic and disruptive to question the workings of authority--but patriotic to institute harsh and regressive policies that benefit the wealthy, undermine social programs that serve the needs of the great majority, and subordinate a frightened population to increased state control.”
― Noam Chomsky

tags: cognitive-dissonance, politics, politics-of-the-united-states, population-control

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“What fortune has made yours is not your own.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

tags: stoicism

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“Another problem with the official definitions of terror is that it follows from them that the US is a leading terrorist state.”
― Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance

tags: america, neoliberalism, state-sponsored-terrorism, terrorism

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