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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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sublimation

Marx achieved a psychological synthesis that enabled him to come into his own [...] it enabled him to resolve the problem of his identity. His genius enabled him to sublimate his personal dialectic into a world perspective,

—p.28 Marx: The Dancer and the Dance (19) by Marshall Berman
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desperation makes carnal pleasures less joyful

There is another striking way in which young Marx worries about sex and conceives it as a symbol of something bigger. When workers are alienated from their own activity in their work, their sexual lives become an obsessive form of compensation. They then try to realize themselves through desperate …

—p.12 Introduction (1) by Marshall Berman
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Laffer curve

the “Laffer curve” is not a new concept, but it is much cited today. The key point is that globalisation and technological change have together shifted the curve downward, so that for any tax rate the government collects less revenue.

—p.267 Globalisation Prevents Action? (263) by Anthony B. Atkinson
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