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One strategy used by the ruling class to maintain the social order has been to fund social welfare programs through government and non-profit agencies. This creates the appearance that the government is responsive, creating an illusion of “progress” while recruiting buffer-zone agents from the groups of people demanding change of the system. But more often than not, the programs are severely underfunded and overregulated; more, they merely provide services, without addressing the structural issues as required to actually eliminate the injustice or inequality motivating people to organize in the first place.
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded
Incite!
It testifies to the power of the ladder tradition that even Nietzsche was still under its influence when he lets Zarathustra say to his friend that he wants to show him ‘all the stairways to the Übermensch’. What is notable here is the paradoxical construction whereby the stairway is to continue existing, even if there is no longer anything above it to lean against. The old world’s most powerful symbol of verticality mysteriously survives the atheistic crisis.
You Must Change Your Life
Peter Sloterdijk
The transformation of economics into a discipline fixated on the development of formalised mathematical models has allowed it to present itself as what Chernomas and Hudson call ‘a non-ideological discipline, aimed at providing positive, scientific answers to the policy questions’.
Mute Compulsion
Søren Mau
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