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“Between capitalist and communist society lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat.”

— Karl Marx , Critique of the Gotha Programme

“Utopians assume that the particular society they describe will operate without certain problems arising, that social mechanisms and institutions will function as they predict, and that people will not act from certain motives and interests. They blandly ignore certain obvious problems that anyone wi…”

— Robert Nozick, A Framework for Utopia

“We may distinguish three utopian positions: imperialistic utopianism, which countenances the forcing of everyone into one pattern of community; missionary utopianism, which hopes to persuade or convince everyone to live in one particular kind of community, but will not force them to do so; and exist…”

— Robert Nozick, A Framework for Utopia

“But one cannot determine in advance which people will come up with the best ideas, and all ideas must be tried out (and not merely simulated on a computer) to see how they will work. And some ideas will come only as we are (post facto) trying to describe what patterns have evolved from the spontaneo…”

— Robert Nozick, A Framework for Utopia

“Utopia will consist of utopias, of many different and divergent communities in which people lead different kinds of lives under different institutions.”

— Robert Nozick, A Framework for Utopia

“No state more extensive than the minimal state can be justified. But doesn’t the idea, or ideal, of the minimal state lack luster?”

— Robert Nozick, A Framework for Utopia

“He's been offering up his pain in this fashion for 20 years, ever since he first flung himself, human-cannonball-style, into the center ring of the great American pop-cultural circus.”

— Sam Schube, Johnny Knoxville’s Last Rodeo

“She’s really interested in queer voices, she’s really interested in feminist voices, she’s really interested in voices on body size, all kinds of different conversations that are really exciting right now, and I think are the future.”

— Amy Hundley, Roxane Gay Starts Publishing Imprint With Grove Atlantic

“The deal is sure to face criticism from lawmakers.”

— Wendy Lee, Ryan Faughnder, Why Amazon buying MGM is a watershed moment for Hollywood and tech

“Sex was all anyone ever wanted from me. So I guess it's... It's just all I thought I had to give.”

— Rightor Doyle, Tiff, Zoe Levin, The Past is Not Always Behind

“Once the sexual patriarchy dies, then all genders will be equal.”

— Rightor Doyle, Tiff, Zoe Levin, Pete Shy

“Grad school waits for no dominatrix.”

— Rightor Doyle, Tiff, Zoe Levin, Old Friends, New Names

“All horror is political, whether the creators want it to be or not. Before you head straight to the comments with your list of apolitical horror films, let me define my terms. By “political,” I don’t necessarily Republican or Democrat (although it can certainly be that). Rather, I mean political in…”

— Joseph George, EDITORIALS‘Spiral’ and the Politics That Have Always Been Present in the ‘Saw’ Franchise

“Writing is what I steal from the usual flow of things, from all the noise and interruptions and the constant rendering unto Caesar that seems to take up more and more of everyone’s time and energy.”

— John Burnside, John Burnside

“Pop music can encompass so much, and Olivia is carving out space for herself with a raised eyebrow and a very sharp knife.”

— P. Claire Dodson, It's Brutal Out Here

“Olivia Rodrigo said it best: God, it’s brutal out here.”

— Dana Schwartz, Ben Platt Playing Evan Hansen At 27 Is Totally Fine

“White people went home and kept being white.”

— Michael Harriot, It Turns Out, All Those 'Woke' White Allies Were Lying

“I kissed him that night. He called things off a few weeks later because he said I deserved so much better — a typical line, I suppose, from the kind of guy who tries but ultimately can’t move forward.”

— Alexandra Capellini, His Comfort Is Not My Responsibility

“It’s too soon to know whether Rice will get the remedy she seeks, and whether, if she does, it will change the tide. What I do know, however, is that the search is a refusal of bitterness.”

— Imani Perry, Stop Hustling Black Death

“What I realize when I reflect back on the silent voices of my youth, though, is that we girls had so much to rage and yell and be sad about — maybe even more than the boys ever did.”

— Lindsay Zoladz, On 'Sour,' Olivia Rodrigo Is A Lowercase Girl With Caps-Lock Feelings