varon's book
the new left "appears to have utterly and decisively freaked out," the new leftist paul breines lamented. "normal and intense factional debate has... been replaced by a blaring carnival of fetishized and mind clogging rhetoric... it is as if there were a self-propelling mechanism which brings everyone into the general reduction of the entire terrain of debate and consciousness to the level of retail sanity within wholesale madness."
"comrades, we don't have much time...how this period ends depends primarily on our will." rudi dutschke
violence, in sum, realized social theory by consummating the revolutionary word in the radical deed."
max weber's ethic of ultimate ends vs ethic of responsibility (ends justifies means)
the very notions of "the people," "the masses," and "the majority" are inventions of language -114
gewaltmonopol - max weber- the state is a human community that (successfully) claims a monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force
"wherever there is a belief that democracy is indispensable for the dignity of human beings, democracy is more than a purely utilitarian construct. When one has the courage of this belief, one must also have the courage of intolerance toward those who want to use democracy to destroy democracy."
"comrades, we don't have much time...how this period ends depends primarily on our will." rudi dutschke
violence, in sum, realized social theory by consummating the revolutionary word in the radical deed."
max weber's ethic of ultimate ends vs ethic of responsibility (ends justifies means)
the very notions of "the people," "the masses," and "the majority" are inventions of language -114
gewaltmonopol - max weber- the state is a human community that (successfully) claims a monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force
"wherever there is a belief that democracy is indispensable for the dignity of human beings, democracy is more than a purely utilitarian construct. When one has the courage of this belief, one must also have the courage of intolerance toward those who want to use democracy to destroy democracy."