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Do not ignore the national question as long as their

"Every product is a bait with which to entice the essence of the other, his money. Every real or potential need is a weakness which will tempt the fly onto the lime-twig. Universal exploitation of communal human nature"

Is China socialist?

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You work yourself to death, or coast to nonexistence; or, with the ballast of capital, you hoard yourself against death, deferring life, until you die.

the specific qualitative changes are not assumed to be epiphenomena of changed institutions, formations, and beliefs, or merely secondary evidence of changed social and economic relations between and within classes. At the same time they are from beginning taken as social experience, rather than as ‘personal’ experience or the as the merely superficial or incidental ‘small change’ of society. They are social in two ways that distinguish them from reduced sense of the social as the institutional and the formal: first, in that they are changes of presence (while they are being lived this is obvious, when they have been lived it is still their substantial characteristic); second, in that although they are emergent or pre-emergent, they do not have to await definition, classification, or rationalization before they exert palpable pressures and set effective limits on experience and on action. Such changes can be defined as changes in structures of feeling. The term is difficult, but ‘feeling’ is chosen to emphasize a distinction from more formal concepts of ‘world-view’ or ideology.’ It is not only that we must go beyond formally held and systematic beliefs, though of course we have always to include them. It is that we are concerned with meanings and values as they are actively lived and felt, and relations between these and formal or systematic beliefs are in practice variable