Ernest Mandel Quotes

For Marx, 'pure' economic theory, that is economic theory which abstracts from a specific social structure, is impossible.

Ernest Mandel

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• Polka dots are fabulous.

  

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• Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease.

  

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• I want to get comfortable with my insecurities until I am no longer insecure. I want to be comfortable in my skin so that I do not need to dump any of my discomfort onto someone else in the form of judgment.

  

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• I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

  

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• I thought 'The Well' was going to launch my career, but nothing happened.

  

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• The world is in such a place of social unrest and there's so much violence.

  

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• You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again.

  

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• It hurt. At first, I couldn't feel the ball.

  

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• For Marx, 'pure' economic theory, that is economic theory which abstracts from a specific social structure, is impossible.

  

  Ernest Mandel
  • Impossible
  • Social
  • Economic