To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.
BERNARD CRICKTo Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.
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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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Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.
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The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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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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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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Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.
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Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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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.
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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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Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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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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Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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Politics are, as it were, the market place and the price mechanism of all social demands – though there is no guarantee that a just price will be struck; and there is nothing spontaneous about politics- it depends on deliberate and continuous activity.
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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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