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'Selections from Prison Notebooks', 'Interview with Baggini and Stangroom' and 'Authority and the Individual'
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24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / c. A unified people
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Gradually loyalty to a creed increased, which could even outweigh nationality [Russell]
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Increasingly war expands communities, and unifies them through fear [Russell]
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In early societies the leaders needed cohesion, but the rest just had to obey [Russell]
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24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 2. Population / b. State population
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The economic and political advantages of great size seem to have no upper limit [Russell]
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24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 1. Purpose of a State
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Government has a negative purpose, to prevent trouble, and a positive aim of realising our desires [Russell]
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The state should produce higher civilisations for all, in tune with the economic apparatus [Gramsci]
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24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 2. State Legitimacy / d. General will
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Eventually political parties lose touch with the class they represent, which is dangerous [Gramsci]
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24. Political Theory / C. Ruling a State / 2. Leaders / a. Autocracy
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Caesarism emerges when two forces in society are paralysed in conflict [Gramsci]
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24. Political Theory / C. Ruling a State / 2. Leaders / b. Monarchy
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A monarch is known to everyone in the group, and can thus unite large groups [Russell]
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24. Political Theory / C. Ruling a State / 2. Leaders / c. Despotism
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Totalitarian parties cut their members off from other cultural organisations [Gramsci]
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24. Political Theory / C. Ruling a State / 3. Government / a. Government
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What is the function of a parliament? Does it even constitute a part of the State structure? [Gramsci]
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24. Political Theory / C. Ruling a State / 4. Changing the State / b. Devolution
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Power should be with smaller bodies, as long as it doesn't restrict central powers [Russell]
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24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 2. Anarchism
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In an anarchy universities, research, books, and even seaside holidays, would be impossible [Russell]
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A state is essential, to control greedy or predatory impulses [Russell]
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24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 5. Democracy / f. Against democracy
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In democracy we are more aware of being governed than of our tiny share in government [Russell]
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24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / g. Liberalism critique
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Liberalism's weakness is its powerful rigid bureaucracy [Gramsci]
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24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 8. Socialism
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Managers are just as remote from workers under nationalisation as under capitalism [Russell]
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Socialists say economic justice needs some state control of industries, and of foreign trade [Russell]
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Being a slave of society is hardly better than being a slave of a despot [Russell]
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