Politics Quotes

"Politics is the struggle over the space of appearing."

"Political movements are merely organized forms of repression."

"Politics is the art of organizing repression on behalf of the masses."

"The supremacy of a social group manifests itself in two ways: as domination and as intellectual and moral leadership."

"National-popular collective will is the subject of history."

"The historical bloc is the unity of intellectual and moral leadership."

"Politics is the art of making the possible real."

"The people are the real agents of historical change."

"The political is always already present in the cultural."

"The personal is always political, the political always personal."

"The ethical relation precedes and escapes the political order."

"The state emerges from ethical relations but can betray them."

"Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: the fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate."

"There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate newspaper campaigns."

"The fact that Stalin has perverted the teachings of Marx does not make those teachings ineffective or untrue."

"The state does not govern through coercion alone, but through the manufacture of consent and cultural reproduction."

"Every social formation contains a dominant ideology that serves the interests of those in power."

"The question is not whether we are ideological, but which ideology serves our liberation."

"The state apparatus extends far beyond government to include schools, churches, media, and culture."

"What the ruling class presents as eternal is merely the temporary dominance of particular interests."

"Cultural struggle is class struggle; the contest over meaning is inseparable from material conflicts."

"The state is not above class conflict but fundamentally structured by it."

"The greatest threat to freedom is the pacification of the oppressed."

"The state maintains control through the production of false needs."

"Politics is the art of the possible becoming the art of the necessary."

"The marketplace has become our only remaining sacred space, purged of meaning."

"We call it progress when we simply exchange one form of servitude for another."

"State is the entire complex of practical and theoretical activities with which the ruling class maintains its dominance."

"The difference between the socialist and the peasant is that the peasant does not understand class contradictions."

"National identity is constructed through cultural struggle and negotiation."