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To Indian communists, who treated caste as a sort of folk dialect derived from the classical language of class analysis, rather than as a unique, fully developed language of its own, Ambedkar said, “[T]he caste system is not merely a division of labour. It is also a division of labourers.”
Annihilation of Caste
B.R. Ambedkar
What politicians seek to avoid are any institutional changes that increase the number of people to whom they are beholden.
The Dictator's Handbook
de Mesquita Bueno
For Vygotsky, the relationship between instruction and development was at the core of the dialectical movement between spontaneous and scientific concepts: in the process of instruction, spontaneous concepts are the cognitive framework, the seeding ground, for the emergence of nonspontaneous (scientific) concepts. Instruction, then, is the impetus for the development of this new type of concept.
A Marxist Education
Wayne Au
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