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The Liberal Virus

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  • Author: Samir Amin
  • ASIN: B07QPW4ZMN
  • ISBN: 8187879475
  • Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07QPW4ZMN
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Pure economics becomes the theory of an imaginary world. — location: 135 ^ref-32518

The dominant class could then assert that the respectability of its members established the legitimacy of its privileges. — location: 220 ^ref-56506

The globalized “liberal” economic order requires permanent war—military interventions endlessly succeeding one another—as the only means to submit the peoples of the periphery to its demands. — location: 252 ^ref-56167

obsolescent capitalism, by means of a violent imperialism, is busily annulling all of the emancipatory possibilities. — location: 290 ^ref-53302

the “anti-nation” discourse encourages the acceptance of the role of the United States as military superpower and world policeman. — location: 296 ^ref-39472

unlike any prior system, it has simultaneously widened the gap between what this development would potentially allow and the actual use made of that development. — location: 313 ^ref-46250

One should not be surprised then that at the very moment when capitalism appears to be completely victorious, the “fight against poverty” has become an unavoidable obligation in the rhetoric of the dominant groups. — location: 321 ^ref-49255

It is fashionable today to discourse on poverty and the necessity, if not of eradicating it, at least of reducing its extent. This is a discourse of charity, in the nineteenth century style, which does not devote much time inquiring into the economic and social mechanisms which engender the “poverty” in question, and this in an epoch where the scientific and technological means at the disposal of humanity are sufficient to eradicate it totally. — location: 330 ^ref-39899

in its ascendant, and historically progressive phase, it integrated more than it excluded. — location: 355 ^ref-58016

In the Marxist camp, only Maoism grasped the magnitude of the challenge. — location: 385 ^ref-45947

It is necessary to preserve peasant agriculture for the entire visible future of the twenty-first century. — location: 389 ^ref-33878

delink internal prices from those of the world market— — location: 393 ^ref-18942

the proportion of the popular classes in a precarious position has gone from less than a quarter to more than half of the global urban population and this phenomenon of pauperization has reappeared on a significant scale in the developed centers themselves. — location: 436 ^ref-49938

Democracy’s credibility, and therefore its legitimacy, is eroded by its incapacity to put a stop to the deteriorating condition of a growing segment of the popular classes. — location: 456 ^ref-21178

This imaginary capitalism is conceived as a simple and continual extension of exchange relations (“the market”) — location: 466 ^ref-36304

it is preferable to speak of democratization, thereby insisting on the dynamic aspect of an always incomplete process, rather than of democracy, which reinforces the illusion that there can be a definitive formula for it. — location: 499 ^ref-5875

private property exists only if it is exclusive, that is, if there are those who do not own property). — location: 511 ^ref-19056

Everything that has been said and written on the double dilution of citizenship and class consciousness into the spectacle of political comedy and the consumption of commodities is contained in this separation between the political and the economic. — location: 540 ^ref-40350

The more extremist do not hesitate to welcome the concept of society as a jungle of “individuals,” to sacrifice the possible pacifying intervention of the state to the principles of an administration which reduces public power to functioning as an instrument at the exclusive service of the “winners.” — location: 641 ^ref-62542

Vote Republican, vote Democrat, it makes no real difference when your future does not depend on your electoral choice but on the uncertainties of the market. — location: 815 ^ref-25893