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“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”
― Antonio Gramsci

“As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.”
― Noam Chomsky

“Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.”
― Antonio Gramsci

“That's a large part of what economics is - people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things. And then pretending that they haven't just made the numbers up, which they have. Economics is like astrology in that sense, except that economics serves to justify the current power structure, and so it has a lot of fervent believers among the powerful.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars