Stefan Nesbitt

“I study life by being close to it, this "native life" about which so little is known, and which is so disfigured by the descriptions of those who, not knowing it, insist on describing it anyway.”
― Isabelle Eberhardt, The Oblivion Seekers

“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

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