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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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7 years, 9 months ago

an organic, dynamic system

Here, it's worth reiterating that the book is an explicit rejection of the idea that the Establishment represents a conscious, organized conspiracy. Sure, there are undoubtedly specific conspiracies, from police cover-ups to tax avoidance on an industrial scale. Yet the whole premise of the book is…

—p.xvii The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It Foreword to the Paperback Edition (xi) by Owen Jones
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7 years, 9 months ago

but it would still be unaccountable

[...] Today's Establishment, in my view, is bound together by common economic interests and a shared set of mentalities: in particular a mentality that holds that those at the top deserve ever greater power and wealth. Unaccountable power could become more representative, but it would still be unac…

—p.xii Foreword to the Paperback Edition (xi) by Owen Jones
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7 years, 9 months ago

it will have to be dispossessed

To understand the political necessity of this requires first that the enigma of capital be unravelled. Once its mask is torn off and its mysteries have been laid bare, it is easier to see what has to be done and why, and how to set about doing it. Capitalism will never fall on its own. It will have…

—p.260 The Enigma of Capital: and the Crises of Capitalism What is to be Done? And Who is Going to Do It? (215) by David Harvey
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racism and the oppression of women and children

[...] Racism and the oppression of women and children were foundational in the rise of capitalism. But capitalism as currently constituted can in principle survive without these forms of discrimination and oppression, though its political ability to do so will be severely curtailed, if not mortally…

—p.258 What is to be Done? And Who is Going to Do It? (215) by David Harvey
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without seizing state power

[...] there is no way that an anti-capitalist social order can be constructed without seizing state power, radically transforming it and reworking the constitutional and institutional framework that currently supports private property, the market system and endless capital accumulation. [...]

—p.256 What is to be Done? And Who is Going to Do It? (215) by David Harvey