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Steven Lukes Quotes

born 1941 United Kingdom

Steven Lukes (born 1941) is a British political and social theorist.

United Kingdom
Sociologists

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A may exercise power over B by getting him to do what he does not want to do, in quick succession, but he may also exercise power over him by shaping or determining his very wants. Indeed, is it not the supreme exercise of power to get another or others to have the desires you want them to have – that is, to secure their compliance by controlling their thoughts and desires?

Power: A Radical View (1974)

It must be said that Marx's was a narrow and impoverished view of the meaning of the rights of man, even in their late eighteenth-century forms: it treated them only as symptomatic of the individualism and contradictions of bourgeois life.

Marxism and Morality (1985)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Steven Lukes (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.