Status Updates From Hyperpolitics: Extreme Poli...

I have encountered an error: ‘In 2014, he saw in Beppe Grillo’s rise as the sign that…’ Either ‘in’ or ‘as’, not both.

(It is a marker how much I like the book that I have been mostly able to ignore the above, rather than immediately question the validity of the entire text.)

‘…The state draws countless matters, questions and decisions into the realm of politics that have no place there. Private matters and specialist questions that ultimately have nothing to do with the state.’ (2/2)

György Konrád, as cited in Jäger:

'In Eastern Europe, we are not primarily concerned with the question of whether politics is good or bad, but with the fact that we are surrounded everywhere by too much, all too much politics...’ (1/2)

‘The right has historically been content to defend existing property relations. Apathy and resignation are its greatest assets, not militancy. It thus remains unclear whether social capital is actually growing on the right or whether it is simply eroding more slowly.’