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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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the engine in the machine

[...] although Marx comes after Spinoza, it is Spinoza who can now help us fill the gaps in Marx. For identifying the structures of the capitalist mobilisation of employees does not tell us what these structures ‘run on’; that is to say, it does not tell us what, concretely, makes them effective – …

—p.x Willing Slaves of Capital: Spinoza and Marx on Desire Foreword (ix) by Frédéric Lordon
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dialectic

in a dialectical reversal peculiar to major advances in social control, the idea that some are free to use others as means to an end, while others are free to allow themselves to be used in that manner, has been proclaimed the very essence of freedom

—p.ix Foreword (ix) by Frédéric Lordon
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the tax advisers will be kings

France has excelled at accumulating various direct taxes, with moth-eaten, overlapping tax bases, each with different rules: never mind, we’ll create a 75 percent bracket with a third tax base, different from both the income tax and the social security tax, and even more full of holes than the firs…

—p.189 Why Save the Bankers?: And Other Essays on Our Economic and Political Crisis Action, Fast! (187) by Thomas Piketty
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