After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.
Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is ‘The Book of British Birds,’ and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.
Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.
In the deep night of metaphysics, all cats look black.
A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.
I attacked Dawkins’s book on God because I think he is theologically illiterate.
Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao’s China or Stalin’s Soviet Union.
Socialism is the completion of democracy, not the negation of it.
Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.
Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced.
