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Chapter Nine

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claim: the state would be too powerful. response: it doesn't have to be; Marx wanted it to "wither away". plus what's the diff (threat-wise) between an all-powerful monopoly corporation vs a state, except that the state is at least nominally accountable to the people? (though actually the state theoretically has legitimacy in terms of violence and its claim to be "for the people", so think about this more idk)

Eagleton, T. (2011). Chapter Nine. In Eagleton, T. Why Marx Was Right. Yale University Press, pp. 196-210

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Those who speak of harmony and consensus should beware of what one might call the industrial chaplain view of reality. The idea, roughly speaking, is that there are greedy bosses on one side and belligerent workers on the other, while in the middle, as the very incarnation of reason, equity and moderation, stands the decent, soft-spoken, liberal-minded chaplain who tries selflessly to bring the two warring parties together. But why should the middle always be the most sensible place to stand? Why do we tend to see ourselves as in the middle and other people as on the extremes? [...]

literally liberals atm

—p.200 by Terry Eagleton 7 years, 1 month ago

Those who speak of harmony and consensus should beware of what one might call the industrial chaplain view of reality. The idea, roughly speaking, is that there are greedy bosses on one side and belligerent workers on the other, while in the middle, as the very incarnation of reason, equity and moderation, stands the decent, soft-spoken, liberal-minded chaplain who tries selflessly to bring the two warring parties together. But why should the middle always be the most sensible place to stand? Why do we tend to see ourselves as in the middle and other people as on the extremes? [...]

literally liberals atm

—p.200 by Terry Eagleton 7 years, 1 month ago

(verb) to utter or send out with denunciation / (verb) to send forth censures or invectives / (verb) express vehement protest

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They could fulminate against upper-class parasites and the idle rich in ways which could be mistaken by the politically unwary as genuinely radical.

—p.206 by Terry Eagleton
notable
7 years, 1 month ago

They could fulminate against upper-class parasites and the idle rich in ways which could be mistaken by the politically unwary as genuinely radical.

—p.206 by Terry Eagleton
notable
7 years, 1 month ago