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The trouble seems to be that both Bachrach and Baratz and the pluralists suppose that because power, as they conceptualize it, only shows up in cases of actual conflict, it follows that actual conflict is necessary to power. But this is to ignore the crucial
point that __the most effective and insidious use of power is to prevent such conflict from arising in the first place.__
Power: A Radical View
Steven Lukes
So keep this refuge in mind: the back roads of your self. Above all, no strain and no stress. Be straightforward. Look at things like a man, like a human being, like a citizen, like a mortal. And among the things you turn to, these two: i. That things have no hold on the soul. They stand there unmoving, outside it. Disturbance comes only from within—from our own perceptions. ii. That everything you see will soon alter and cease to exist. Think of how many changes you’ve already seen. “The world is nothing but change. Our life is only perception.”
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Networks of neighborhood councils will raise demands about local investments and tax, housing, and employment patterns, which will connect with workers' struggles and vice versa. These sorts of linkages will provide a solid basis for consumer-worker-community coalitions.
Liberating Theory
Michael Albert, Holly Sklar
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