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"It shows us that the process of trying to assimilate into an existing category in many ways runs counter to efforts to produce radical or revolutionary results."

"... the demand for social and economic justice was spontaneously integrated into the demand for democracy, as if poverty was the result of the greed and corruption of those in power, and it was enough to get rid of them. What happens then is that we get democracy, but poverty remains - what to do then?

dont know who carl marks is but im reading this so i can understand lenin so i can understand trotsky

reading this so i can understand lenin so i can understand trotsky

Super nice as exploring the troubles through talks with people living through it. Some of it is just plain boring tho

"But postmodernism's supposed gestures of demystification do not emince sophistication so much as a certain naivety, a conviction that there were others, in the past, who really believed in the Symbolic."