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"Listening to a narration of the book while reading seems to keep me from drifting." — Dec 18, 2013 06:47AM
"Listening to a narration of the book while reading seems to keep me from drifting." — Dec 18, 2013 06:47AM
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"Leo Panitch is the Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy, and Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science at York University, Toronto. He will be the Keynote Speaker at Historical Materialism Australasia, September 5-6 2014. www.hmaustralasia.org" — Aug 16, 2014 11:41PM
"Leo Panitch is the Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy, and Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science at York University, Toronto. He will be the Keynote Speaker at Historical Materialism Australasia, September 5-6 2014. www.hmaustralasia.org" — Aug 16, 2014 11:41PM
“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
― Leaves of Grass
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
― Leaves of Grass
“The capitalist world-economy needs the states, needs the interstate system, and needs the periodic appearance of hegemonic powers. But the priority of capitalists is never the maintenance, much less the glorification, of any of these structures. The priority remains always the endless accumulation of capital, and this is best achieved by an ever-shifting set of political and cultural dominances within which capitalist firms maneuver, obtaining their support from the states but seeking to escape their dominance.”
― World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction
― World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction
“A broken soul is not the absence of beauty, but a cracked and torn soul reeks of the sweet incense it contains.”
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“As my friend Julian puts it, only half winkingly: “God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason God made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine, so that humanity might share in the act of creation.”
― Something That May Shock and Discredit You
― Something That May Shock and Discredit You
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