Quotes from book
The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism


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“The demand for group rights will widen in the society, because social life increasingly becomes organized on a group basis.”

Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 5, Unstable America, p. 198

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“Crime is a form of "unorganized" class struggle, and the lowest groups in the society have always committed a disproportionate number of crimes.”

Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 5, Unstable America, p. 189

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“Television, as the most "public" of media, has its limits.”

Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 2, The Disjunction of Cultural Discourse, p. 108

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“The one thing that would utterly destroy the new capitalism is the serious practice of deferred gratification.”

Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 1, The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, p. 78