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Here is the dilemma: the state must both guarantee the conditions of accumulation and intervene further down the line to maintain the hegemony that the latter undermines, even when it cannot effectively perform its legitimizing function without encountering immediate opposition from capital. In this respect, Offe concludes, capitalist societies ‘are always ungovernable’.
The Ungovernable Society
Grégoire Chamayou
Inclusive democratic practice is likely to promote the most just results because people aim to persuade one another of the justice and wisdom of their claims, and are open to having their own opinions and understandings of their interests change in the process.
Inclusion and Democracy
Iris Marion Young
But although we are prepared to sacrifice our well-being, our comfort, and our lives to the people, when danger threatens, that does not mean that we are ready to sacrifice Mind itself, the tradition and morality of our spiritual life, to the demands of the hour, of the people, or of the generals. __He would be a coward who withdrew from the challenges, sacrifices, and dangers his people had to endure. But he would be no less a coward and traitor who betrayed the principles of the life of the mind to material interests—who, for example, left the decision on the product of two times two to the rulers.__
The Glass Bead Game
Hermann Hesse
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