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The “old feudal classes” were classes in that their economic predominance derived from specific forms of landownership. Their descendants, the German Junkers and the English Lords are no longer so directly linked to a specific economic location: they “have found new forms of economic power in industry and in the banks.” Nonetheless their sense of themselves as a social entity remains tied to their history and what they think of as their traditions.
Gramsci's Common Sense
Kate Crehan
If we had the right sense of our position in the world, if to compare were inseparable from to live, the revelation of our infinitesimal presence would crush us. But to live is to blind ourselves to our own dimensions. . . .
A Short History of Decay
E. M. Cioran
Social movement theorists John McCarthy, David Britt, and Mark Wolfson argue that the “channeling mechanisms” embodied by the non-profit industry “may now far outweigh the effect of direct social control by states in explaining the structural isomorphism, orthodox tactics, and moderate goals of much collective action in modern America.”12 That is, the overall bureaucratic formality and hierarchical (frequently elitist) structuring of the NPIC has institutionalized more than just a series of hoops through which aspiring social change activists must jump—these institutional characteristics, in fact, dictate the political vistas of NPIC organizations themselves.
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded
Incite!
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