Stefan Nesbitt

“The working class did not rise like the sun at an appointed time. It was present at its own making.”
― E.P. Thompson

“Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.”
― Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan

“In the "free world" (Natopolis) the centres of ideological orthodoxy are rarely defined. The diversity of intellectual trends within the orthodoxy, the indeterminate and shifting character of its boundaries, the existence of real centres of dissent (and the licence given to even Stalinist opposition)--all these conspire to create the central illusion of "Natopolitan" culture, that there is in fact no orthodoxy but only an infinite variety of opinions among which one is free to choose.”
― E.P. Thompson, The Poverty of Theory