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To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.

Bernard Crick

The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
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Consistency Ideas Skills
There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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Certainty Danger Desire
The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.
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Agony Order Practice
What matters in Politics is what men actually do – sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.
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Acting Matter Men What
Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking.
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Challenges Ideological Political Rule Thinking
Individualism and Economic Order and many other works, which is, to put it briefly, the whole of laisser-faire economic theory, then plainly man as such a programmed predator has very little interest in being fraternal, or very little chance.
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Economic Individualism Programmed Such Theory
In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of ‘reason’ as single sources of authority.
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Firsts Real Reason
Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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Manners Rough Things Useful
Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master science.
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Demand Fundamentals Problem
The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.
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Condescension Men Praise
Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.
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Chaos Conservatives Men Order
The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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Character Lying Unique
If, of course, one builds into the concept of an ‘individual’ all that Professor Hayek does in his Road To Serfdom.
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Builds Men Order Professor
Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupation of free men, and its existence is a test of freedom. The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.
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Men Political Politics
Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence…politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.
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Evil Political Politics
Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.
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Government Impossible

To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.

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