“In any society built on institutionalized racism, race-mixing doesn't merely challenge the system as unjust, it reveals the system as unsustainable and incoherent. Race-mixing proves that races can mix - and in a lot of cases, want to mix. Because a mixed person embodies that rebuke to the logic of the system, race-mixing becomes a crime worse than treason.”
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Revolution by Number
originally attributed in 1952 to an "Emanuel" Rabinovitch, who appears to be a fictional creation of Eustace Mullins
Misattributed
Source: The Theory of Political Economy (1871), Chapter VII, Theory of Capital, p. 198.
“The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water.”
On liquid diets, in New York Herald Tribune (29 December 1960).
“Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.”
The Singer, in The Caucasian Chalk Circle (1944), Prologue
“I like lots of color and mix-and-match.”
On her fashion sense( New York Times http://www.slideshowplayers.com/press/NYT_aug06.html), August 2006
The Reactionary Temptation (2017)
Context: We are living in an era of populism and demagoguery. And yes, there’s racism and xenophobia mixed into it. But what we are also seeing, it seems to me, is the manifest return of a distinctive political and intellectual tendency with deep roots: reactionism.
Reactionism is not the same thing as conservatism. It’s far more potent a brew. Reactionary thought begins, usually, with acute despair at the present moment and a memory of a previous golden age. It then posits a moment in the past when everything went to hell and proposes to turn things back to what they once were. It is not simply a conservative preference for things as they are, with a few nudges back, but a passionate loathing of the status quo and a desire to return to the past in one emotionally cathartic revolt. If conservatives are pessimistic, reactionaries are apocalyptic. If conservatives value elites, reactionaries seethe with contempt for them. If conservatives believe in institutions, reactionaries want to blow them up. If conservatives tend to resist too radical a change, reactionaries want a revolution. Though it took some time to reveal itself, today’s Republican Party — from Newt Gingrich’s Republican Revolution to today’s Age of Trump — is not a conservative party. It is a reactionary party that is now at the peak of its political power.