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	Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect 3.82 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Russia, Ukraine and Contemporary Imperialism

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“The zombie is the absolute void present within capitalist everyday life.”
― Charles Thorpe, Necroculture

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“Having is estranged being.”
― Charles Thorpe

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“Love is paradigmatic of the truly human relationship, in that it is based entirely on the expression of what the individual is as a human being and the calling forth reciprocally of love in the other individual as a manifestation of their being.
If economic life was truly human, then love would be an aspect of production and exchange.”
― Charles Thorpe, Necroculture

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