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As early as 1857, they began forcing Africans to pay taxes, which compelled African households to send family members to the mines and plantations for work. Those who didn’t pay taxes were punished – so there was always the threat of violence lurking in the background.
When we feel deeply drawn to someone, we cathect with them; that is, we invest feelings or emotion in them. That process of investment wherein a loved one becomes important to us is called “cathexis.”
All About Love
bell hooks
The defining mode of domination in the U.S. political sphere is authoritarianism. A U.S. humanist movement will seek to replace it with participatory democracy. Accomplishing this will require the careful combination of short and long term programs progressively increasing people's abilities to develop their own policy attitudes and means for participation in decision-making, as well as increasing the range of policy alternatives and promoting power sharing among diverse constituencies.
Liberating Theory
Michael Albert, Holly Sklar
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