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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
The idea that people’s futures might be economically determined deeply offends US sensibilities. We want to believe that individual moxie matters, that a person’s creativity, effort, and intelligence will lead to economic success. Stories of exceptional strivers, heroically overcoming a stacked deck of obstacles, divert our attention from the data. But the large megatrends are now indisputable.
Born on Third Base
Chuck Collins
If socialism is a practical programme and is not merely an ideal, distant and far off, the question for a socialist is not whether he believes in equality. The question for him is whether he minds one class ill-treating and suppressing another class as a matter of system, as a matter of principle—and thus allow tyranny and oppression to continue to divide one class from another.
Annihilation of Caste
B.R. Ambedkar
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