Rome wasn__ built in a day, but that's because they never used Cosmic Ordering.
In a situation of manipulation, the Left is almost always tempted by a __uick return to power,_ forgets the necessity of joining with the oppressed to forge an organization, and strays into an impossible __ialogue_ with the dominant elites. It ends by being manipulated by these elites, and not infrequently itself falls in an elitist game, which it calls __ealism.__anipulation, like the conquest whose objectives it serves, attempts to anesthetize the people so they will not think. For if the people join to their presence in the historical process critical thinking about that process, the threat of their emergence materializes in revolution_One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success. This manipulation is sometimes carried out directly by the elites and sometimes indirectly, through populist leaders.
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In a situation of manipulation, the Left is almost always tempted by a __uick return to power,_ forgets the necessity of joining with the oppressed to forge an organization, and strays into an impossible __ialogue_ with the dominant elites. It ends by being manipulated by these elites, and not infrequently itself falls in an elitist game, which it calls __ealism.__anipulation, like the conquest whose objectives it serves, attempts to anesthetize the people so they will not think. For if the people join to their presence in the historical process critical thinking about that process, the threat of their emergence materializes in revolution_One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success. This manipulation is sometimes carried out directly by the elites and sometimes indirectly, through populist leaders.
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