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humans have many capacities

Humans have many capacities. It’s a doomed enterprise to prefigure socialism, but we can certainly feed the drives that, as far as we can imagine, we’d like to hope will cut with its grain.

—p.48 Salvage Magazine #2 On Social Sadism (17) by China Miéville
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abjure

We can abjure the complicity demanded of us

—p.48 On Social Sadism (17) by China Miéville
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ineluctable

Before its ineluctable drive, the sadistic spite at its victims for their ‘weakness’ can be disavowed.

—p.44 On Social Sadism (17) by China Miéville
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liberals out of fidelity to liberal ideas

[...] The liberal is often the most outraged and vociferous chanter on the demonstration. Richard Seymour once made the indispensable distinction between those who are liberals out of fidelity to liberal ideas, and those who are liberals out of fidelity to the liberal state. The latter will never b…

—p.41 On Social Sadism (17) by China Miéville
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autotelic

Still, the jouissance sadism taps can become autotelic, can shock consciences far wider than the hard Left.

—p.41 On Social Sadism (17) by China Miéville
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