“Always historicize!”
― The Political Unconscious
― The Political Unconscious
“But the working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready-made state machinery, and wield it for
its own purposes.”
― The Civil War in France
its own purposes.”
― The Civil War in France
“I have never worked on race and ethnicity as a kind of subcategory; I have always worked on the whole social formation which is racialised”
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“The Commune, they exclaim, intends to abolish property, the basis of all civilization! Yes, gentlemen, the Commune intended to abolish that class property which makes the labour of the many the wealth of the few.”
― The Civil War in France
― The Civil War in France
“When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.”
― The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
― The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
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