against the cant of a sclerotic state religion

the mechanism of structural sclerosis of public expenditure in the consolidation state

The now sclerotic generation of obedient Soviet bureaucrats formed in the end of the Stalinist purges

If even ‘successful’ revolutions led to sclerotic technocracy and political repression in the long term, what then was to be the properly emancipatory course of action?

Liberals now pledge themselves again to the sclerotic regime the modernisation of which is their notional raison d’être. ‘We demand nothing’, simpers Milyukov, ‘and impose no conditions.’