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History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic.

— Terry Eagleton Why Marx Was Right (2011)

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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)

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