The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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