Authoritarianism
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George Maciunas, Manifesto, 1963
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The first section of the Manifesto also states that Fluxus intends to purge the world of such other symptoms of “bourgeois sickness” as intellectual, professional, and commercialized culture. In one letter, Maciunas declares that “Fluxus is anti-professional.”
Fluxus: Magazines, Manifestos, Multum in Parvo
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A universal system of social insurance financed by the state with contributions made by employers and employees from their pay. A flat-rate basic (subsistence) payment would be made to protect people not working through sickness, unemployment or old age.
The Beveridge Report, 1942
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Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness.
1776: (Paine) Common Sense
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The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in “advanced” countries, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected …
The Manifesto
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Noland, detail