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Article: Fear, hatred and the hidden injuries of class in early modern England.
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- Journal of Social History
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- March 22, 2006
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Class struggle ... is a fight for the crude and material things
without which no refined and spiritual things could exist. But these
latter things, which are present in class struggle, are not present as
a vision of spoils that fall to the victor. They are alive in this
struggle as confidence, courage, humour, cunning, and fortitude, and
have effects that to reach far back into the past.
H. Eiland and M.W. Jennings (eds.) Walter Benjamin: selected writings.
Volume 4, 1938-1940 4 vols. (Cambridge, Mass., 2003), 390.
The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed
Steve Biko, quoted in D. Barsamian (ed.), Propaganda and the public
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