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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 plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.
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Political Politics Together
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
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
Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.
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Government Impossible
Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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Affair Democracy World
The political process is not tied to any particular doctrine. Genuine political doctrines, rather, are the attempt to find particular and workable solutions to this perpetual and shifty problem of conciliation.
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Doctrine Political Politics 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
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
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
The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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Honour Politician Pride Use
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
Free men stick their necks out.
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Free Men Neck Sticks
The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
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Consistency Ideas Skills
Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.
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Ideas Simple Technology
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

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

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