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Quote for the day – January 13

14 Thursday Jan 2016

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“Richard Hofstadter’s essay linked an interest in conspiracies or conspiracy theories with paranoia and with the loony radical Right. Hofstadter thus helped to contaminate the subjects for the liberal-left which then – and now – is unwilling to be associated with almost anything on or of the Right. For ‘serious’ people – academics, journalists, politicians – large areas of political inquiry have been contaminated ever since by an association with conspiracy theories. Hofstadter’s essay appeared just when questions were being asked about the assassination of JFK and his essay helped to shore up the ‘lone assassin’ verdict offered by the Warren Commission”.

Robin Ramsay, Politics and Paranoia

(See Acorn 20)

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Quote for the day – December 20

20 Sunday Dec 2015

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“Presented with a universal duty to defend public order, everyone is invited to inform, to grovel, to fear: for the first time in history cowardice becomes a sublime quality, fear is always justified and the only kind of ‘courage’ which escapes scorn is that of approving and supporting all the abuse and infamy of the state”.

Gianfranco Sanguinetti, On Terrorism and the State

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Quote for the day – December 10

10 Thursday Dec 2015

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Covid police

“The more artifice, the more progress; the more progress, the more security. We press our technological imperialism forward against the natural environment until we reach the point at which it comes as startling and not entirely credible news to our urban masses to be told by anxious ecologists that their survival has anything whatever to do with air, water, soil, plant, or animal”.

Theodore Roszak, Where the Wasteland Ends

[Read about Theodore Roszak on the orgrad website]

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Quote for the day – December 2

02 Wednesday Dec 2015

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war is peace

“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact”.

George Orwell, 1984

[Read about George Orwell on the orgrad website]

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Quote for the day – November 23

23 Monday Nov 2015

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“I have never said that the secret services were behind every single attack, given that these days even a Molotov cocktail or a workplace sabotage are considered to be ‘attacks’: but I have said, and I have been saying for nearly ten years now, that all spectacular acts of terrorism are either remote-controlled, or directly carried out, by our secret services”.

Gianfranco Sanguinetti, On Terrorism and the State (1980)

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