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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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Derivatives Doctrine

There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.

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There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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Certainty
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
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
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
Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.

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Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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Affair
If a government is to do great new things, it will need more support. If a government is to change the world, it will need mass support. This is one of the discoveries of modern government.
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Discovery
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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Political
Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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Factory Living Workers Working
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Consistency Skills
Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.

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Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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Manners Rough Things Useful
Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.
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Chaos Conservatives Order
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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Political
Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.

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Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.
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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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Fundamentals
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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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 Together
The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.

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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

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

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