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It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives.

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We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

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All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best.

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My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies.

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So every day I'm mindful as I watch the Bush crowd extend their sway into policies of every imaginable variety, and over almost every square foot of earth, that the control of the American state is a matter of urgency.

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I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.

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The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.

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Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't.

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I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.

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The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.

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Nationality: American

Type: Sociologist

Born: Unknown

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