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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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troika

The dogmatic vigour with which the EU and its Troika push back any attempts by the Left to shift this obstacle

—p.29 Corbyn’s Progress (15) by Tariq Ali
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not just about taking power for power’s sake

[...] it is not just about taking power for power’s sake or to win solely by parliamentary majority, but also about initiating a counter-hegemonic shift towards a fairer, more just society [...]

—p.14 Introduction (11) missing author
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the practice of estrangement

[...] The practice of estrangement--staging phenomena in such a way that what had seemed natural and immutable in them is now tangibly revealed to be historical and thus the object of revolutionary change--has long seemed to provide an outlet from the dead end of agitational didacticism in which so…

—p.206 Aesthetics and Politics Reflections in Conclusion (196) by Fredric Jameson
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the practice of affixing instant class labels

[...] Nothing has, of course, more effectively discredited Marxism than the practice of affixing instant class labels (generally 'petty bourgeois') to textual or intellectual objects [...]

—p.201 Reflections in Conclusion (196) by Fredric Jameson