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Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Away Condemn Conservatives Counsel Doom Environmentalism Instead Left Taking

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It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: American Attempt Capitalism Family Industry Law Level Longer Maintain Single Support Unwritten Wage Wages Will

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Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Carries Conviction Defense Definition Families Family Flexible Liberals New Subscribe

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Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Alternative Arise Arrangements Improvement Marriage Marriages Most Old Out Ruins So-Called

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Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Families Live Longer Most Nuclear People

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News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Advertising Another Form Liberal News Propaganda Represents

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Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Button Conservatism Contemporary Denial Ideology Realistic Rigorous Smile Symbol

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Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Always Danger Disintegration Imminent Personal Remains

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Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Birth Breakdown Concealing Crisis Effect Moral New Order Presenting Progressive Rhetoric Social Them

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Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Consumer Greet Important Important Part Less Official Ordinary Part People Plays Propaganda Sense Society Suspicion Term Where

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: June 1st, 1932

Died: February 14th, 1994

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