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""... the catch-up vision simply presumes that the primary role of working people and their material and social conditions is to serve as instruments and vehivkes of capital accumulation and economic growth."" p.51
— Aug 27, 2018 04:53PM
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"[...] struggles against dictatorship contain within them myriad forces and potentialities. [...] the particular democratic and political economic forms that emerge will depend on the power, strategies and capacities of the contending forces [...]" p.207
— Sep 11, 2019 01:13AM
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"The inescapable paradox of development theory and policy - the advocacy of exploiting, oppressing and constraining the human development of labouring classes, for their benefit-." p.185
— Sep 11, 2019 01:12AM
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""By neccesities I understand [...] whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even the lower order, to be without. Custom has rendered shoes a neccesary of life in England. The poorest creditable person of either sex would be ashamed to appear in public life without them."" p.177
— Aug 29, 2019 05:21PM
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""The fantasy about the magical value of work for women is a middle-class one - it presumes that jobs are well paid and fulfilling... One must ask if work that is badly paid, back breaking, exploitative, or boring liberates women."" p. 168
— Aug 29, 2019 05:17PM
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""The facts of the economy were originally embedded in situations that were not in themselves of an economic nature [...]."" "[...] not all forms of society in human history can be reduced to market relations and 'the logic of rational action'." pp. 139-140
— Aug 23, 2019 05:56PM
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'"To allow the market mechanism to be sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment... would result in the demolition of society..."" p.135
— Aug 23, 2019 05:49PM
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""Without slavery you have no cotton; without cotton you have no modern industry. It is slavery that gave the colonies their value; it is the colonies that created world trade, and it is world trade that is the precondition of large-scale industry."" p.122
— Aug 23, 2019 05:45PM
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"[...] the fallacy of composition - that what is good for one country is good for all countries -" p.102
— Aug 23, 2019 05:41PM
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"Industrialisation is not simply a technological issue but requires the reordering of society." p.98
— Oct 21, 2018 04:06PM
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""The privilege of historical backwardness —and such privilege exists— permits, or rather compels, the adoption of whatever is ready in advance of any specified date, skipping a whole series of intermediate stages."" p.80
— Oct 21, 2018 04:04PM
