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Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.

Bernard Crick

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 Social
Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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Factory Living Workers Working
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 Government Need Support
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 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
Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.
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Government Impossible
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
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
The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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Honour Politician Pride Use
The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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Character Lying Unique
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
BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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Boredom Enemy Men
Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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Affair Democracy World
Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.
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Character Poor Relation
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
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

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