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As Heller warned us, authoritarian liberalism is a socially asymmetric authoritarianism. It all depends on who it is dealing with: it is strong with the weak, and weak with the strong.
The Ungovernable Society
Grégoire Chamayou
Let us call the claim that a theory that leads to worse outcomes can’t be utilitarian, “Jamieson’s dictum.”
A Perfect Moral Storm
Stephen M. Gardiner
The notion that one must know history in order to understand the present has a certain justification when applied to the history of events, but not for the structural history of a society. Rather, the opposite is the case: __to examine the constitution of a particular social and economic structure, one has to be already familiar with the completed structure. Only then will one know what to look for in history.__
An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx's Capital
Michael Heinrich
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