In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of ‘reason’ as single sources of authority.
BERNARD CRICKPolitics 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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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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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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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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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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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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The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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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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There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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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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Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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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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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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