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“Under the modern Establishment, the function of the state has been reconfigured. Now, it exists to support private interests, including sectors - like the City - which have nothing but contempt for the state.”
― The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It
― The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It
“The objective is to change the system and the behaviour it encourages, rather than replacing 'bad' people with 'good' people.”
― The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It
― The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It
“The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave.”
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“A victory is scored when your opponents are forced to debate issues they would rather leave ignored”
― The Establishment: And how they get away with it
― The Establishment: And how they get away with it
“It is entirely undesirable that on modern housing estates only one type of citizen should live,’ he argued. ‘If we are to enable citizens to lead a full life, if they are each to be aware of the problems of their neighbours, then they should all be drawn from different sectors of the community. We should try to introduce what was always the lovely feature of English and Welsh villages, where the doctor, the grocer, the butcher and the farm labourer all lived in the same street.”
― Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
― Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
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