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Money and generous benefits can easily alter a person’s political outlook. Ideology follows the money.

— L. K. Samuels In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action (2013)

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‘Bolshevism and Fascism were heresies of socialism.’

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To accept the legitimacy of the state is to embrace the necessity for war.

Under National Socialism, the state plundered and killed other national groups and races and use their resources to provide Germans with an unsparing welfare-warfare society.

Killing History: The False Left-Right Political Spectrum and the Battle between the ‘Free Left’ and the ‘Statist Left (2019)

Every system that has existed emerged somehow, from somewhere, at some point. Complexity science emphasizes the study of how systems evolve through their disorganized parts into an organized whole.

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If people don’t have free agency, they become mere chattel to the herdsman who wields the biggest horsewhip.

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