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“Electability” is a crock of shit. It is defined, like political “moderation,” only in terms of opposition to things people want, but are told they can’t have, ranging from antiwar politics to left-wing economic populism to even the “cultural liberalism” that is seemingly the cornerstone of the modern Democratic Party.
Alex Pareene
Being and thought must disappear in action, art and philosophy in social life.
August von Ciezkowski
If everyone decided to stop speaking because someone might get upset, we would hear nothing thereafter but the chirping of crickets.
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The interests of the superrich are not identical with those of the middle classes, and vigorous assertion of the latter’s interests, even if they impinge upon those of the former, is very far from being some kind of Marxist class warfare. Such assertion is a legitimate application of republican principles.
Roger D. Hodge
Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
A.J.P. Taylor, historian
The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.
Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle (1967)
Advice For Our Times? “May the days be aimless.  Let the seasons drift.  Do not advance the action according to a plan.”
Don DeLillo

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