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These motivational tapes have really inspired me! I'm going to make a million dollars, buy my own company and retire early. Then, I'm going to write a novel and a symphony and give all the profits to charity. Then next month, I'll figure out how to do it.

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Michael Parenti

You see there are people who believe the function of the police is to fight crime, and that's not true, the function of the police is social control and protection of property.

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The two party electoral system performs the essential function of helping to legitimate the existing social order.

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The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth.

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A huge national security state has developed in the United States since World War II. Its function is to buttress anticommunist, procapitalist governments and undermine and destroy popular movements whenever possible.

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To oppose the policies of a government does not mean you are against the country or the people that the government supposedly represents. Such opposition should be called what it really is: democracy, or democratic dissent, or having a critical perspective about what your leaders are doing. Either we have the right to democratic dissent and criticism of these policies or we all lie down and let the leader, the Fuhrer, do what is best, while we follow uncritically, and obey whatever he commands. That's just what the Germans did with Hitler, and look where it got them.

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It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support.

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