Status Updates From [ TACTICS AND ETHICS, 1919-...

“the law can never be more highly developed than the economic formation of the society and the level of cultural development which that formation conditions”

“ Let there be no misunderstanding: nothing is further from our thoughts than the petty-bourgeois utopianism of those who fondly imagine that social change can only be brought about through an inner transformation of human beings. ”

“Indeed the myth of bourgeois parliamentary democracy depends precisely on the ability of parliament to appear not as an organ of class oppression, but as the organ of the ‘entire people’.”

“We know full well that capitalism, under sentence of death, will fight with all the means at its disposal in order to survive.”

Not a casual read, for sure, but once I settle in properly the theory is quite clear.