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Of the two great ideas of the nineteenth century, socialism and somatism, it was clearly only the latter that could be widely established, and one need not be a prophet to assert that the twenty-first century will belong to it completely, even more than the twentieth.
You Must Change Your Life
Peter Sloterdijk
Arruzza also suggests we understand this as a difference between two forms of necessity: while gender oppression might not be necessary for capitalism in the sense of being a ‘logical precondition’ of it, it is necessary in the sense that its historical existence has resulted in it becoming a ‘necessary consequence’ of capitalism.
Mute Compulsion
Søren Mau
Commenting on the rapid rise in share prices over the Second World War years, Kosambi said: Not only has Nehru neglected to take note of this accumulation, but he has also been unable to grasp just what this quantitative change has done qualitatively to the character of the Indian middle class, a class which may now be said to be firmly in the saddle. A few drops from the banquet (generally from the excess profits) have been scattered as a libation in the direction of education, scientific research, and charity; a considerable slackening of the ancient rigidity of manners, and unfortunately of morals also, is duly noticeable. Yet this is nothing compared to the principal characteristic of this class, the ravening greed which is now so obvious in the black market, in enormous bribes spent in making still more enormous profits, in speculation in shares and an increasingly callous disregard for the misery and even the lives of their fellow Indians (Kosambi 1986: 14).
Political Agenda of Education
Krishna Kumar
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