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“Before we can think, we have to eat; and the word “eat” opens up the question of a whole mode of social production. We also have to be born; and the word “born” opens up the whole domain of kinship, sexuality, patriarchy, sexual reproduction and so on.”

another determinist chapter??

“There is no grand narrative of Progress, just as there is no fairy tale of Decline.”

“…the world’s leading capitalist nation has hit on an ingenious solution to this defect. In the United States today, over a million more people would be seeking work if they were not in prison.” oh my GOD ???

“Marx, as we have seen, treats the future not as a matter of idle speculation, but as a feasible extrapolation from the present. […] As a materialist, he was alert to the complex, recalcitrant, unfinished nature of reality; and such a world is incompatible with a vision of perfection.”

“We will know that socialism has established itself when we are able to look back with utter incredulity on the idea that a handful of commercial thugs were given free rein to corrupt the minds of the public with Neanderthal political views convenient for their own bank balances but for little else.”