Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.

I am not a prophet; I cannot predict what will happen.

In a nutshell: if freedom visualised by the Enlightenment and demanded/promised by Marx was made to the measure of the ideal producer; the market-promoted freedom is designed with the ideal consumer in mind; neither of the two is "more genuine" than the other.

We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.

With globalization and with a lot of power evaporating from the nation-states, the late-19th century established hierarchies of importance, or 'pecking orders' of cultures, presenting assimilation as an advancement or promotion, dissolved.

Every interpretation is but an introduction to another interpretation, and that is how Talmud pages are printed.