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Page 96 - The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, ie the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
Page 85 - The concrete is concrete because it is the concentration of many determinations, hence unity of the diverse. It appears in the process of thinking, therefore, as a process of concentration, as a result, not as a point of departure, even though it is the point of departure in reality and hence also the point of departure for observation [Anschauung] and conception.
Page 89 - This example of labour shows strikingly how even the most abstract categories, despite their validity - precisely because of their abstractness - for all epochs, are nevertheless, in the specific character of this abstraction, themselves likewise a product of historical relations, and possess their full validity only for and within these relations.
Page 105 - In its essentials, the thesis argues that in all societies based on class divisions there is a dominant class which enjoys control of both the means of material production and the means of mental production. Through its control of ideological production, the dominant class is able to supervise the construction of a set of coherent beliefs. These dominant beliefs of the dominant class are more powerful, dense and coherent than those of subordinate classes.
Page 104 - The success of a ruling class in establishing its hegemony depends entirely on its ability to convince the lower classes that its interests are those of society at large — that it defends the common sensibility and stands for a natural and proper social order.
Page 86 - In a natural economy, human economic activity is dominated by the requirement of satisfying the needs of each single production unit, which is, at the same time, a consumer unit.
Page v - I think that the tendency of applied science is to magnify injustices until they become too intolerable to be borne. ... I think [also...
Page 177 - The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
Page 86 - The household is as such charged with production, with the deployment and use of labor-power, with the determination of the economic objective. Its own inner relations, as between husband and wife, parent and child, are the principal relations of production in society.
Page 347 - ... established by the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council.
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