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Political democracy can remain if it confines itself to all but economic matters.

— Stuart Chase The Economy of Abundance (1934)

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Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.

Common sense is that which tells us the world is flat.

S. I. Hayakawa's Language in Thought and Action (1952)

Citizens of a modern society need [...] more than that ordinary "common sense" which was defined by Stuart Chase as that which tells you that the world is flat.

Stuart Chase in S. I. Hayakawa (1949)

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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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