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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.

Bernard Crick

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Firsts Real

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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Guarantees Political
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
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
BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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Boredom
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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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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Order Real
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 politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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Honour Politician Use
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
Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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Factory Living Workers Working
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
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
The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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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
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
Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
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Autocracy Totalitarianism
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

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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