Christopher Lasch

Christopher Lasch (June 1, 1932 – February 14, 1994) was a well-known American historian, moralist, and social critic. These are his quotes.

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A passive, suspicious, apolitical electorate can no longer be roused by appeals for national solidarity. Leaders who preach sacrifice to such an electorate are wasting their breath.

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A passive, suspicious, apolitical electorate can no longer be roused by appeals for national solidarity. Leaders who preach sacrifice to such an electorate are wasting their breath.

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The destruction of socialism in the United States had enduring consequences for American radicalism. The most important, perhaps, was the isolation of intellectuals from the rest of society. Marxian theory became almost entirely a preoccupation of literary intellectuals.

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The destruction of socialism in the United States had enduring consequences for American radicalism. The most important, perhaps, was the isolation of intellectuals from the rest of society. Marxian theory became almost entirely a preoccupation of literary intellectuals.

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@jimjones6789 "Toward a Theory of Post-Industrial Society," in Politics in the Post-Welfare State ed. by M. Donald Hancock

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Whereas the class structure of industrial society tended to be polarized between bourgeois and proletarians, post-industrial society consists of five distinct classes

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In both its functions and ideology the ruling class is predominantly managerial. It has developed a variant of bourgeois ideology, a variant of liberalism best described as corporate liberalism.

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Ralph Nader’s activities have done more to publicize certain specific evils of corporate power than all Democratic politicians put together.

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The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement (one among many "alternative" living arrangements) grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

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The capacity for loyalty is stretched too thin when it tries to attach itself to the hypothetical solidarity of the human race.

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It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

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The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

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I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.

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Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.

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but self-love and self-aggrandizement did not impress me as their most important characteristics.

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Narcissists may have paid more attention to their own needs than to those of others,

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The proliferation of visual and auditory images in a 'society of the spectacle' encouraged a similar kind of preoccupation with the self.

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The new therapy provides for personnel what the annual model change provides for its products; rapid retirement from active use.

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For all its intrinsic attractions, democracy is not an end in itself.

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The medical mode of salvation, no less than its predecessors, asserted exclusive rights to virtue and truth.