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The social product grows from year to year. Who is now the true creator of this surplus value which grows wildly and beyond any measure? Who can afford to figure out the profit yielded causally adequate by this immense wealth and the series of economic miracles? In concrete terms: who is the legitimate distributor of the social product and who actually assesses the shares in practical life? As long as the issue is about value, all such questions must above all be formulated as economic questions.
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Every actual democracy rests on the principle that not only are equals equal but unequals will not be treated equally.Democracy requires, therefore, first homogeneity and second—if the need arises elimination or eradication of heterogeneity.
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The various philosophies of life presented themselves as a conquest of materialism, or in any case, they readily claimed it. That does not change anything: their valuations, revaluations, and explanations of disvalue have been emptied into the over-all secularization stream, where they have only hastened the tendency to unlearn, which is a neutralizing process, after all.
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Political thought and political instinct prove themselves theoretically and practically in the ability to distinguish friend and enemy. The high points of politics are simultaneously the moments in which the enemy is, in concrete clarity, recognized as the enemy.
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The equation state = politics becomes erroneous and deceptive at exactly the moment when state and society penetrate each other.
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The inevitable lack of objectivity in political decisions, which is only the reflex to suppress the politically inherent friend-enemy antithesis, manifests itself in the regrettable forms and aspects of the scramble for office and the politics of patronage. The demand for depoliticalization which arises in this context means only the rejection of party politics, etc. The equation politics = party politics is possible whenever antagonisms among domestic political parties succeed in weakening the all-embracing political unit, the state.
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Only the actual participants can correctly recognize, understand, and judge the concrete situation and settle the extreme case of conflict.
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
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Carl Schmitt
Born:
July 11, 1888
Died:
April 7, 1985
(aged 96)
Bio:
Carl Schmitt was a German jurist and political theorist. Schmitt wrote extensively about the effective wielding of political power.
Known for:
The Concept of the Political (1932)
Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy (1985)
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