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If we are interested in radical reform, we must be interested in law. For it is in the law that the organization of society appears to us not under the misleading appearance of a recurrent type, such as capitalism or the regulated or social market economy, but in its detailed institutional and ideological reality as the set of mutually reinforcing and contradictory arrangements and assumptions that it is: the institutional form of the life of a people represented under the light of the understandings of group or class interests and collective ideals that make sense of them.
The Universal History of Legal Thought
Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Her work builds on the analysis of Suzanne Pharr, who notes that the move toward developing antiviolence organizations through the non-profit system coincided with Reaganomics. At the same time that Reagan was slashing government services, the women’s movement organized itself into non-profits to provide the services the government was no longer providing.
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded
Incite!
Recent discoveries in genetics are turning this bad gene vs. good gene model on its head and pointing toward what looks a lot more like the concept of intensifiers. Psychologists call it the “differential susceptibility hypothesis.” The same genes that lead to bad stuff can actually lead to great stuff in a different situation. The same knife that can be used to viciously stab someone can also prepare food for your family. Whether the knife is good or bad depends on context.
Barking Up the Wrong Tree
Eric Barker
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