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Representative democracy cannot expand the purview of democracy itself and cannot effect a revolution across all of society. Electoral politics always reaches its limit when faced with the power of capital. Politics does not exist separately from the economy-rather, it is subordinate to it.

— Slow Down by Kōhei Saitō

At a fun party, mostly of educated, well-paid professionals, a multi-racial, multigenerational evening, the subject of disciplining kids by hitting was raised… As one man bragged about the aggressive beatings he had received from his mother, sharing that “they had been good for him,” I interrupted and suggested that he might not be the misogynist woman-hater he is today if he had not been brutally beaten by a woman as a child.

— All About Love by bell hooks

"Nothing was happening as yet, I myself had not even any mental picture of what was going to happen; and yet there was a perpetual vague sense of danger, a consciousness of some evil thing that was impending. However little you were actually conspiring, the atmosphere forced you to feel like a conspirator. You seemed to spend all your time holding whispered conversations in corners of cafes and wondering whether that person at the next table was a police spy."

— Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell