If It Is True That We Need

Capitalism Is The Sorcerer's Apprentice: It Has Summoned Up Powers Which Have Spun Wildly Out Of Control And Now Threaten To Destroy Us.the Task Of Socialism Is Not To Spur On Those Powers But To Bring Them Under Rational Human Control.

The Past Can Be Used To Renew The Present, Not Just To Bury It.

If We Were Not Called Upon To Work In Order To Survive, We Might Simply Lie Around All Day Doing Nothing.

I Liked Early Amis A Lot, But I Stopped Reading Him Some Time Ago. I Admire Hitchens On Literary Topics - I Think He Is Very Astute. Mcewan, I Read A Bit. But I Suppose It's More The Ideological Phenomenon That They Represent Together That Interests Me.

The Truth Is That Liberal Humanism Is At Once Largely Ineffectual, And The Best Ideology Of The 'human' That Present Bourgeois Society Can Muster.