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Fly Away

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Lenin 1917-1923: The Revolution Besieged (Vol. 3)

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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.”
― Owen Jones, The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It

tags: politics, private-sector, the-city, the-establishment, the-state

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“The objective is to change the system and the behaviour it encourages, rather than replacing 'bad' people with 'good' people.”
― Owen Jones, The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It

tags: establishment, government, politics

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“The modern Establishment relies on a mantra of 'There Is No Alternative': potential opposition is guarded against by enforcing disbelief in the idea that there is any other viable way of running society.”
― Owen Jones, The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It

tags: establishment, government, politics, society

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“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas.”
― Karl Marx, The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy

tags: capitalism, class-struggle, marx, philosophy, political-science

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“Only a psychopath would ever think of doing these things, only a psychopath would dream of abusing other people in such a way, only a psychopath would treat people as less than human just for money. The shocking truth is, even though they now have most if not all of the money, they want still more, they want all of the money that you have left in your pockets, they want it all because they have no empathy with other people, with other creatures, they have no feeling for the world which they exploit, they have no love or sense of being or belonging for their souls are dead, dead to all things but greed and a desire to rule over others.”
― Arun D. Ellis, Corpalism