. That proper distribution would involve not just cleaner, ultimately decarbonized technologies—these are necessary but not sufficient. We would also have to redefine work itself to include all the activities now called social reproduction,

Next thought: utopia. Realistic or not, and perhaps especially if not.

Or maybe we should just give up entirely on optimism or pessimism—we have to do this work no matter how we feel about it. So by force of will or the sheer default of emergency we make ourselves have utopian thoughts and ideas.

These days I tend to think of dystopias as being fashionable, perhaps lazy, maybe even complacent, because one pleasure of reading them is cozying into the feeling that however bad our present moment is, it’s nowhere near as bad as the ones these poor characters are suffering through.

There are a lot of dystopias around these days, and this makes sense, because we have a lot of fears about the future.

Because of this distrust amongst men, themost reasonable way for any man to make

Competition·: This equality of ability produces equalityof hope for the attaining of our goals.

Traditionalism implies the rejection of modernism.

speeches of Mussolini, whose most significant passages we memorized in school. Silence.Mimo spoke in a hoarse voice, barely audible. He said: "Citizens, friends. After so manypainful sacrifices . . . here we are. Glory to those who have fallen for freedom." And thatwas it. He went back inside. The crowd yelled, th

l 1945, the partisans took over in Milan. Two days later they arrived in the smalltown where I was living at the time. It was a moment of joy. The main square wascrowded with people singing and waving flags, calling in loud voices for Mimo, thepartisan leader of that area.

seems certain that we do not feel comfortable in our present-day civilization, but it is very difficult to form an opinion whether and in what degree men of an earlier age felt happier and what part their cultural conditions played in the matter.

his if this stronger man should in his turn meet someone even stronger than he. Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which remains united against all separate individuals.

the manner in which the relationships of men to one another, their social relationships, are regulated ȯ relationships which affect a person as a neighbour, as a source of help, as another personȂs sexual object, as a member of a family and of a State

it is a certain fact that all the things with which we seek to protect ourselves against the threats that emanate from the sources of suffering are part of that very civilization.

t is a certain fact that all the things with which we seek to protect ourselves against the threats that emanate from the sources of suffering are part of that very civilization.

his contention holds that what we call our civilization is largely responsible for our misery, and that we should be much happier if we gave it up and returned to primitive conditions.

This recognition does not have a paralysing effect. On the contrary, it points the direction for our activity.

Oppression refers to structural phenomena that immobilize or diminish a group.

major political project for those of us who identify with at least one of these movements must thus be to persuade people that the discourse of op­pr�ss10n makes sense of much of our social experience

Many people in the United States would not choose the term "oppres­sion" to name injustice in our society.