Ideology is a certain unique experience of the universe and your place in it, to put it in standard terms, which serves the production of the existing power relations and blah blah blah.

There is a contradiction between market liberalism and political liberalism. The market liberals (e.g., social conservatives) of today want family values, less government, and maintain the traditions of society (at least in America's case). However, we must face the cultural contradiction of capitalism: the progress of capitalism, which necessitates a consumer culture, undermines the values which render capitalism possible

But in a radically atheist universe, you are not only responsible for doing your duty, You are also responsible for deciding what is your duty.

The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.

Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.

Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.

What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.