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Constantinos Kalogeropoulos
Today, the popular version of this story is typically some updated variation on Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Discourse on the Origin and the Foundation of Inequality Among Mankind, which he wrote in 1754. Once upon a time, the story goes, we
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“an institution destined to reproduce class divisions is not, and can never be, a monolithic bloc without cracks, whose policy is established, as it were, in spite of its own contradictions.”
― State, Power, Socialism
― State, Power, Socialism
“I shall begin by looking at the period of fascism, and use the opening provided by a quotation from Max Horkheimer, which forms the inscription in a recent German work, Faschismus und Kapitalismus. Horkheimer, reacting early against the whole conception of ‘totalitarianism’, wrote: ‘Anyone who does not wish to discuss capitalism should also stay silent on the subject of fascism.’ Strictly speaking, this is incorrect: it is he who does not wish to discuss imperialism who should stay silent on the subject of fascism.”
― Fascism and Dictatorship: The Third International and the Problem of Fascism
― Fascism and Dictatorship: The Third International and the Problem of Fascism
“If we confine ourselves to waiting, we will not get the 'great day' at all, but rather the tanks in the small hours of the morning.”
― The Crisis of the Dictatorships: Portugal, Greece, Spain
― The Crisis of the Dictatorships: Portugal, Greece, Spain
“Contradictions among the dominant classes and fractions - or in other words, the relationship of forces within the power bloc - are precisely what makes it necessary for the unity of the bloc to be organized by the State.”
― State, Power, Socialism
― State, Power, Socialism
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