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4,407 quotes curated by Chris Lavergne:

“The Jews must previously acquire economic power sufficiently great to overcome the old social prejudice against them.”
— Theodor Herzl, The Jewish State
Tagged: Economy as Liberation
“Pray for us, who once, too, thought we could fly.”
— Margaret Atwood, Time capsule found on the dead planet by Margaret Atwood
Tagged: Flying, Failure of Vision , Anti-Urbanism
“The whole of society will have become a single office and a single factory, with equality of labor and pay.”
— Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution
Tagged: Universalization, Singular Control , Communist Singularity
“Between capitalist and communist society lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat.”
— Karl Marx , Critique of the Gotha Programme
Tagged: Intermediate Unraveling, Dictatorship For Democracy
“Utopians assume that the particular society they describe will operate without certain problems arising, that social mechanisms and institutions will function as they predict, and that people will not act from certain motives and interests. They blandly ignore certain obvious problems that anyone with any experience of the world would be struck by or make the most wildly optimistic assumptions about how these problems will be avoided or surmounted. (The utopian tradition is maximax.)”
— Robert Nozick, A Framework for Utopia
Tagged: Utopia, Maximax
“We may distinguish three utopian positions: imperialistic utopianism, which countenances the forcing of everyone into one pattern of community; missionary utopianism, which hopes to persuade or convince everyone to live in one particular kind of community, but will not force them to do so; and existential utopianism, which hopes that a particular pattern of community will exist (will be viable), though not necessarily universally, so that those who wish to do so may live in accordance with it.”
— Robert Nozick, A Framework for Utopia
Tagged: Modes of Marketing , Vision Engineering
“But one cannot determine in advance which people will come up with the best ideas, and all ideas must be tried out (and not merely simulated on a computer) to see how they will work. And some ideas will come only as we are (post facto) trying to describe what patterns have evolved from the spontaneous coordination of the actions of many people.”
— Robert Nozick, A Framework for Utopia
Tagged: Filtering Ideas of Implementation, Theory and Praxis Notes
“Utopia will consist of utopias, of many different and divergent communities in which people lead different kinds of lives under different institutions.”
— Robert Nozick, A Framework for Utopia
Tagged: Utopia, Political Dreams
“No state more extensive than the minimal state can be justified. But doesn’t the idea, or ideal, of the minimal state lack luster?”
— Robert Nozick, A Framework for Utopia
Tagged: Overcoming Conservatism , Exciting Ideas, Utopia
“ Just like with choosing the next hit song, TikTok was happy to have it appear as if the ones deciding on the agenda were its users themselves.”
— Shelly Banjo, How TikTok Chooses Which Songs Go Viral