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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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false consciousness

Historically, many on the Left have treated working-class support for the Right as a form of false consciousness. Capital’s control of the means of ideological production (the media) allow them to distort workers’ thinking.

—p.47 How the Donald Came to Rule (41) by Charlie Post
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petite bourgeoisie

The petit bourgeois is a man unable to imagine the Other.

—p.265 Myth Today (215) by Roland Barthes
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petite bourgeoisie

Continuing the provincial petit bourgeois theme, Goldwater was the grandson of the founder of a five-outlet department store chain

on Barry Goldwater

—p.28 From Margins to Mainstream (23) by Doug Henwood
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supererogation

the United States might have seemed to many a conservative country, making the founding of the magazine an act of “supererogation,” as the Catholic reactionary put it, in fact it was anything but: it was a bold counterstroke against liberal hegemony.

—p.28 From Margins to Mainstream (23) by Doug Henwood
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coterie

he's seamlessly assembled a coterie of corporate bosses into his transition team

—p.15 The Trump Way (15) by Jacobin
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