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If the International was to reach a free and federated future society, it must itself be organised in free and federal ways. The federalists argued that if the International failed to do so, it would make itself incapable of leading humanity to the universal emancipation that was its goal.
Prefigurative Politics
Paul Raekstad and Sofia Saio Gradin
They were not friends, Comrade Pillai and Inspector Thomas Mathew, and they didn’t trust each other. But they understood each other perfectly. They were both men whom childhood had abandoned without a trace. Men without curiosity. Without doubt. Both in their own way truly, terrifyingly adult. __They looked out at the world and never wondered how it worked, because they knew. They worked it.__ They were mechanics who serviced different parts of the same machine.
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
Importantly, the dynamics of aligning supply and demand through electoral competition runs two ways: as parties are trying to discern the electorate’s concerns and respond to them, they are also shaping that demand by way of providing the ideological language in which grievances are expressed.
Capitalism on Edge
Albena Azmanova;
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