Much of the media under capitalism avoid difficult, controversial or innovative work because it is bad for profits. Instead, they settle for banality, sensationalism and gut prejudice.

We will know that socialism has established itself when we are able to look back with utter incredulity on the idea that a handful of commercial thugs were given free rein to corrupt the minds of the public with Neanderthal political views convenient for their own bank balances but for little else.

Capitalism has given birth to extraordinary powers and possibilities which it simultaneously stymies; and this is why Marx can be hopeful without being a bright-eyed champion of Progress, and brutally realistic without being cynical or defeatist. Il belongs to the tragic vision to stare the worst steadily in the face, but to rise above it through the very act of doing so.

To call ourselves historical beings is to say that we are constitutively capable of self-transcendence, becoming at one with ourselves only in death.

Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.

The fact that people are massed anonymously together may be in one sense an alienation, but in another sense it is a condition of their emancipation.