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""In a state, on the other hand, plunder precedes redistribution. It is precisely in order to be able to plunder continuously that redistribution is instituted"." Apr 03, 2016 08:41AM

 
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""Yet nature was everywhere present on city streets—albeit in a state of profound up-heaval—in the form of epidemic diseases, rotting garbage, piles of manure, smoky skies, polluted waterways, and occasional fires.¹" Jan 19, 2016 03:18PM

 
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""Governance states are global as much as they are national"." Dec 08, 2015 02:22PM

 
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Hannah Arendt
“The net effect of this language system was not to keep these people ignorant of what they were doing, but to prevent them from equating it with their old, "normal" knowledge of murder and lies. Eichmann's great susceptibility to catch words and stock phrases, combined with his incapacity for ordinary speech, made him, of course, an ideal subject for "language rules.”
Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows, "Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

Karl Marx
“Once the inner connection is grasped, all theoretical belief in the permanent necessity of existing conditions collapses before their collapse in practice
-- Letter to Ludwig Kugelmann (July 11, 1868)”
Karl Marx, Selected Letters: The Personal Correspondence 1844-1877

Bertolt Brecht
“The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events. He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics. The imbecile doesn’t know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies.”
Bertolt Brecht

Alexis de Tocqueville
“In democratic countries, knowledge of how to combine is the mother of all other forms of knowledge; on its progress depends that of all the others.”
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II

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