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A society that has moved beyond commodification is one that has embraced the most thoroughgoing radical democracy in all spheres of social life.

— David McNally Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002)

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In short, the rules of behaviour in capitalist society systematically produce irrational consequences.

Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002)

Behind their fluffy rhetoric about free trade and free markets lurks a hostility toward freedom for ordinary people — and a love affair with police and prisons.

Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002)

"Free trade" is a slogan used to attack practices designed by competitor economies to protect their own interests.

Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002)

To make history — to change the actual course of world events — is intoxicating, inspiring, and life-transforming.

Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002)

At its heart, this book is about where this new left has come from, and where it might be going.

Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002)

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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!

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

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

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