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the ideas of the ruling class

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of men…

—p.45 The Philosophy of Marx Ideology or Fetishism: Power and Subjection (42) by Karl Marx
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which will soon prove lethal

[...] (1) that the conditions of existence of the proletarians (what we would today term social exclusion) are in contradiction with all the principles of that society; (2) that they themselves live by other values than those of private property, profit, patriotism and bourgeois individualism; and …

—p.21 Changing the World: From Praxis to Production (13) by Étienne Balibar
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the point is to change it

In the eleventh and last of the Theses on Feuerbach, we read: ‘The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.’ [...]

—p.13 Changing the World: From Praxis to Production (13) by Étienne Balibar
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the IMF's mea culpa

Somewhat belatedly, the IMF in 2016 echoed the views of Professors Rey and Bhagwati outlined above, and issued a partial mea culpa in a paper titled ‘Neoliberalism: Oversold?’ [...]

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None of this is news to the victims of neoliberal economic policies in many poor, heavily indebted countr…

—p.144 The Production of Money: How to Break the Power of Bankers Subordinating Finance, Restoring Democracy (131) by Ann Pettifor
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Keynes’s great contribution to monetary theory

Keynes’s great contribution to monetary theory, and to the policies of his time, was based on his refutation of an important element of classical economic theory. He argued that the rate of interest was the cause, not as orthodox economists argued the passive consequence, of the level of econom…

—p.136 Subordinating Finance, Restoring Democracy (131) by Ann Pettifor