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After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.
Why Marx Was Right (2011)
The truth is that the past exists no more than the future, even though it feels as though it does.
Why Marx Was Right (2011)
There seems to be something in humanity which will not bow meekly to the insolence of power.
Why Marx Was Right (2011)
Understanding is always in some sense retrospective, which is what Hegel meant by remarking that the owl of Minerva flies only at night.
Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983)
The truth is that liberal humanism is at once largely ineffectual, and the best ideology of the 'human' that present bourgeois society can muster.
Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983)
Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure.
Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983)
It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself.
Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983)
The liberal state is neutral between capitalism and its critics until the critics look like they are winning.
Why Marx Was Right (2011)
If the masses are not thrown a few novels, they may react by throwing up a few barricades.
Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983)
When it comes to who exactly should be exploited, the system is admirably egalitarian.
Why Marx Was Right (2011)
Reading a text is more like tracing this process of constant flickering than it is like counting the beads on a necklace.
Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983)
Schizophrenic language has in this sense an interesting resemblance to poetry.
Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983)
It is difficult to think of an origin without wanting to go back beyond it.
Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983)
Capitalism cannot survive without a working class, while the working class can flourish a lot more freely without capitalism.
Why Marx Was Right (2011)
All desire springs from a lack, which it strives continually to fill.
Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983)
Socialism is the completion of democracy, not the negation of it.
Why Marx Was Right (2011)
Ivory towers are as rare as bowling alleys in tribal cultures.
Why Marx Was Right (2011)
History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic.
Why Marx Was Right (2011)
It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.
Why Marx Was Right (2011)
It is silly to call fat people “gravitationally challenged”, a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.