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To understand today’s politics one must always begin with yesterday’s economics.

— Michael Manley Jamaica: Struggle in the Periphery (1982)

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Democracy should be as much a system of participation as a method of representation.

Where political sovereignty has been conceded but economic power remains untouched, equality remains a myth, social justice proves unattainable and even freedom becomes an ambiguous phenomenon.

Democracy means far more than the right to vote every five years. It means the right to participate in every aspect of national and community life. The people must believe that they can take part.

We believe that the idea of equality is the only enduring principle by which mankind may be guided in the conduct of national and international affairs.

Just as surely history is the product of those forces which seek to dominate in the name of glory or profit, equally is history the product of the forces of those who rebel.”

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Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

Theodor Adorno The Authoritarian Personality (1950)

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