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Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.

— Jean Baudrillard

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It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges persist here and there in the deserts that are no longer those of the Empire, but ours: The desert of the real itself.

Simulacra and Simulation (1981)

We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.

Simulacra and Simulation (1981)

One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.

Simulacra and Simulation (1981)

Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true.

The Perfect Crime (1993)

Never would the humanities or psychoanalysis have existed if it had been miraculously possible to reduce man to his "rational" behaviors.

Simulacra and Simulation (1981)

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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!

Vladimir Lenin The State and Revolution (1917)

The law itself is the instrument of the ruling class; hence it is a logical impossibility for another class to assume power legally.

Oliver Cox Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics (1948)

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.

Gustave Flaubert

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