One of the symptoms of a declining social order is that its members have to give most of their time to politics, rather than to the real tasks of economic production, in an attempt to patch up the cracks already appearing from the ‘inner contradictions’ of such a system.
BERNARD CRICKFree men stick their necks out.
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Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.
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Free men stick their necks out.
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Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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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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Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
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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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The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.
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The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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The method of rule of the tyrant and the oligarch is quite simply to clobber, coerce, or overawe all or most other groups in the interest of their own.
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The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
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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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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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BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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