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he had kept himself, and lost the rest

[...] He was clearly aware of only one thing, his own total isolation. The world had fallen out from under him, and he was left alone.

He had always feared that this would happen, more than he had ever feared death. To die is to lose the self and rejoin the rest. He had kept himself, and lost th…

—p.9 The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
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I'm working hard, I've earned it

The requirement for most of us to sell our labour and be ever more productive is compensated for by enabling us to increase our consumption. Given this dynamic, it makes little sense to forgo environmentally damaging behaviour when we know we have to work harder in the future regardless of our choi…

—p.217 IPPR Progressive Review 25(2) Welcome to the Anthropocene (214) by Mark A. Maslin, Simon L. Lewis
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what's valuable about authority

There is a difference between authority in the structure of political movements, and authority in the wider society. Symbolic prefiguring does have its place, but left movements' internal eschewal of hierarchy, the transferal of attention away from social inequality and onto organisational forms th…

—p.192 Progressive politics in an era of anti-politics (186) by Eliane Glaser
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management to compensate for the market

Indeed, the rhetoric of technocratic management and cold data analysis underpinned the depoliticisation of discussion around public sector management that we witness in the neoliberal age. By insisting governance was simply a data-led assessment of performance, responsibility for the continued fail…

—p.173 Managers, not markets (166) by Richard Lane, Sahil Dutta, Samuel Knafo, Steffan Wyn-Jones