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* Seizing upon anything but [[class]], U.S. [[leftists]] today have developed an array of [[identity groups]] centering around [[ethnic]], [[gender]], [[cultural]], and [[life-style issues]]. These groups treat their respective grievances as something apart from [[class struggle]], and have almost nothing to say about the increasingly harsh [[politico-economic class injustices]] perpetrated against us all.
 
* Seizing upon anything but [[class]], U.S. [[leftists]] today have developed an array of [[identity groups]] centering around [[ethnic]], [[gender]], [[cultural]], and [[life-style issues]]. These groups treat their respective grievances as something apart from [[class struggle]], and have almost nothing to say about the increasingly harsh [[politico-economic class injustices]] perpetrated against us all.
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*: ~ [[Michael Parenti]]
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*: ~ [https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Parenti#Blackshirts_and_Reds:_Rational_Fascism_and_the_Overthrow_of_Communism_(1997) Michael Parenti]
 
*:: ''Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism'', [[San Francisco]]: [[City Lights Books]], p.151, 1997.
 
*:: ''Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism'', [[San Francisco]]: [[City Lights Books]], p.151, 1997.
 
*::: WikiSpooks: [https://WikiSpooks.com/wiki/Identity_politics Identity politics]
 
*::: WikiSpooks: [https://WikiSpooks.com/wiki/Identity_politics Identity politics]

Revision as of 23:55, 26 March 2025

See also: Terminology.
For extended quotes with political analysis see: Political Saviours Are Not A Thing, Transcriptions, and Wage peace.


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D

  • Dictatorship naturally arises out of a democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
    ~ Plato, unverified


G


I



“ I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong. ”
~ Frederick Douglass





“ It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ”
  • It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
    ~ motto of the Christopher Society


  • It is dangerous to be right in matters about which the established authorities are wrong.
  • It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.
  • Il est dangereux d'avoir raison dans des choses où des hommes accrédités ont tort.
    ~ Voltaire] (pen name of François-Marie Arouet, 1694–1778)



L

“ Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. ”
~ Pablo Picasso
  • Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
    ~ Pablo Picasso


“ Let us control the money of a nation, and we care not who makes its laws, ” was said to be a maxim of the House of Rothschilds.
Above: Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812).


N

  • Necessity is the mother of invention, poverty is the mother of necessity.
    ~ Raymond Potvin, Windsorite


P

Translation variation:
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech."
~ Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or Part I, Swenson Translation p. 19 (1843)


S


T


“ The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. ”
~ H.L. Menken
  • The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.
    ~ H.L. Menken, 1910s[Wikiquote]


“ There are two kinds of people in this world - those who are "going to" do something and those who actually do it. ”
~ Thomas Sowell
  • There are two kinds of people in this world - those who are "going to" do something and those who actually do it.
    ~ Thomas Sowell


“ Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. ”
~ Benjamin Franklin, November 11, 1755.
  • Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
    ~ Benjamin Franklin, November 11, 1755.


W

  • When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
    ~ P. J. O'Rourke


“ When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. ”
~ Frédéric Bastiat


“ Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. ”
~ Benjamin Franklin
  • Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
    ~ Benjamin Franklin


Y

“ You aren't doing it wrong, if no one knows what you are doing. ”
  • You aren't doing it wrong, if no one knows what you are doing.


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