It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.
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Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.Jose Saramago
It would not be a question of censoring oneself, but of using common sense.
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I am not a prophet.
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I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.
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Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.
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