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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)
The liberal state is neutral between capitalism and its critics until the critics look like they are winning.
Why Marx Was Right (2011)
When it comes to who exactly should be exploited, the system is admirably egalitarian.
Why Marx Was Right (2011)
Capitalism cannot survive without a working class, while the working class can flourish a lot more freely without capitalism.
Why Marx Was Right (2011)
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)
The most compelling confirmation of Marx's theory of history is late capitalist society. There is a sense in which this case is becoming truer as time passes.
Why Marx Was Right (2011)
You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.
Why Marx Was Right (2011)
Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union.
Why Marx Was Right (2011)
Capitalism is the sorcerer's apprentice: it has summoned up powers which have spun wildly out of control and now threaten to destroy us. The task of socialism is not to spur on those powers but to bring them under rational human control.
Why Marx Was Right (2011)