Politics Quotes

"Democracy cannot exist where economic power remains concentrated."

"Repression is not just a psychological mechanism, but a social and political system maintained by institutions."

"The performance of democracy can mask the reality of authoritarian control."

"Surplus repression is the additional repression required not for survival but for profit and control."

"The body is political; its regulation through norms is a form of control."

"The closing of the political universe is accompanied by the expansion of consumerism."

"To be radical means grasping matters at their roots, which means understanding power relations."

"The masses do not rebel because they have been rendered unable to think rebellion."

"The integration of rebellion into the system shows the system's sophistication, not its tolerance."

"In one-dimensional society, even opposition becomes a commodity."

"Capitalist realism convinces people that no alternative to the system is possible."

"Affirmative culture makes people comfortable with the unacceptable."

"In the administered society, even rebellion can be foreseen and incorporated into the system."

"Politics is the art of creating shared meaning."

"A historical materialist cannot do without the notion of a present which is not a transition."

"The commodity is a mysterious thing, simply because a social relation becomes perceptible as a thing."

"To be radical means to make no concessions to the comfortable classes."

"A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another."

"Democracy requires the freedom to dissent."

"Totalitarianism thrives when citizens surrender their capacity for independent thought and judgment."

"Capitalist production reduces everything, including human beings, to commodities."

"Democratic participation requires citizens capable of understanding complex social processes."

"Ideology persuades us that what is contingent and historical is natural and eternal."

"Revolution fails when it remains purely negative, destroying without building alternatives."

"The reduction of human beings to economic functions is the central inhumanity of capitalist civilization."

"In every society, the dominant class strives to make its partial interests appear universal."

"Democracy cannot exist without citizens capable of thinking for themselves and acting collectively."

"The basis of democracy is that power is held in check and that no individual or group dominates."

"Institution emerges from freedom but also constrains it."

"Open society is one which allows criticism and change."