In Science, As In Love, A Concentration

To Be Located In Society Means To Be At The Intersection Point Of Specific Social Forces. Commonly One Ignores These Forces One Also Knows That There Is Not An Awful Lot That One Can Do About This.

Some People Think That As The Chinese Economy Becomes More And More Capitalistic It Will Inevitably Become More Democratic

He Who Sups With The Devil Had Better Have A Long Spoon. The Devilry Of Modernity Has Its Own Magic: The [believer] Who Sups With It Will Find His Spoon Getting Shorter And Shorter--until That Last Supper In Which He Is Left Alone At The Table, With No Spoon At All And With An Empty Plate. The Devil, One May Guess, Will By Then Have Gone Away To More Interesting Company.

If A Socialist Economy Is Opened Up To Increasing Degrees Of Market Forces, A Point Will Be Reached At Which Democratic Governance Becomes A Possibility.

One Can't Understand The Christian Right And Similar Movements Unless One Sees Them As Reactive - They're Reacting To What They Call Secular Humanism