“Modern economics and the welfare state borrowed heavily on the future.”
Gregory Benford book Timescape
Source: Timescape (1980), Chapter 43 (p. 445)
“The greatest beneficiaries of the modern welfare state, after all, were the middle classes.”
Chap. 14 : Diminished Expectations
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (2005)
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Paul A. Samuelson (1915–2009) American economist
Samuelson (1985; p, 6) as cited in: Klein, Daniel B., and Ryan Daza. " Paul A. Samuelson (Ideological Profiles of the Economics Laureates). http://econjwatch.org/file_download/767/schultzipel.pdf" Econ Journal Watch 10.3 (2013): 561-569. <br class="br">1980s–1990s
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel book Elements of the Philosophy of Right
Sect. 260
Elements of the Philosophy of Right (1820/1821)
Antonie Pannekoek (1873–1960) Dutch astronomer and Marxist theorist
Section 1.2
Workers Councils (1947)
Walter Rodney book How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Source: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972), p. 76.
Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919) Polish Marxist theorist, socialist philosopher, and revolutionary
"The Politics of Mass Strikes and Unions"; Collected Works 2 <!-- p. 465 -->
Context: The modern proletarian class doesn't carry out its struggle according to a plan set out in some book or theory; the modern workers' struggle is a part of history, a part of social progress, and in the middle of history, in the middle of progress, in the middle of the fight, we learn how we must fight... That's exactly what is laudable about it, that's exactly why this colossal piece of culture, within the modern workers' movement, is epoch-defining: that the great masses of the working people first forge from their own consciousness, from their own belief, and even from their own understanding the weapons of their own liberation.
“Nobody tries to diminish the Civil Rights movement by saying they were middle class.”
Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist
The Humanist interview (2012)
Context: If you think about Martin Luther King and others in the leadership of the Civil Rights movement, they were all college-educated, middle class people. Nobody tries to diminish the Civil Rights movement by saying they were middle class.
It’s true that the National Organization for Women in its early years was white middle class. But once it was joined by younger women from civil rights groups like SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) it changed profoundly. In any case, my life’s ambition is to make white women as smart as black women. Because the group of women who still vote against their own self-interest are white married women.
