Politics Quotes

"The colonialist bourgeoisie is quite prepared to leave their lesser brethren to the task of governing the ex-colony."

"The battle for democracy becomes a battle for the liberation of the colonized."

"The national movement is not the only form which can take the liberation of a colonized people."

"In underdeveloped countries an authentic national bourgeoisie is practically non-existent."

"Social tensions will develop if the mass of the people are not continuously and significantly involved in political life."

"The nationalism of underdeveloped countries must be distinguished from the nationalism of European countries."

"The danger of such nationalism lies in the fact that it can be captured by the bourgeoisie."

"The machinery of production must be at the service of the people, not the reverse."

"When we speak of liberation, we cannot leave out the colonial context."

"The peasantry is the revolutionary class in the colonized world."

"The colonialist bourgeoisie, when cornered, tries to maintain its domination by means of culturalism."

"Nationalism, if it is to be progressive, must be open to the international."

"The bourgeoisie of the colonizing country is only interested in profiting from its colonies."

"A successful national liberation will lead inevitably to socialism if the revolution is to be truly complete."

"A nation without culture is a body without a soul."

"Secular criticism must necessarily involve us in questions of power, knowledge, and human interests."

"All nationalisms in their early stages look rather pleasing to people who are not their victims."

"Orientalism was ultimately a political vision of reality whose structure promoted the difference of the East."

"To ignore the role of power in the production of knowledge is to be complicit with that power."

"Nationalism, even in its most generous forms, is always ultimately concerned with power."

"Culture and politics are inextricably linked in the formation of human consciousness."

"The problem is not that we are living in an ideology, but that we have no such luxury."

"We are living in a post-ideological age precisely when ideology is stronger than ever."

"We should reject the standard leftist love of the oppressed."

"Democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others."

"The idea of multiculturalism is itself a poisoned gift."

"The obscenity of capitalism is not its exploitation but its utter banality."

"We should not fear the totalitarian, we should fear the liberal."

"The revolutionary act is not to seize power but to refuse it."

"The political is the ultimate horizon of all human activity."