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“We must ask ourselves: what should we demand of ourselves, given the imperfections of politics and the disappointments of history.”

Life Society Awakening Existential

Author:Roberto Mangabeira Unger

“The market order should no longer be fastened to a single dogmatic version of itself. The new vanguardism should be deepened and disseminated to achieve its revolutionary potential, lifting up the productivity of the mass of workers in the economy”

Society Capitalism Visionary Knowledge Economy

Author:Roberto Mangabeira Unger

“The financial sector grows, it undergoes a hypertrophy. It devours not just profits but talents; and its contribution to real productive activity and innovation is completely disproportional to its parasitic relation to the economy.”

Economy Society Finance

Author:Roberto Mangabeira Unger

“If the self remains in its citadel, anxious to control and heavily defended, it declines in the sources of vitality. To lay the citadel open, however, is to court danger: a danger inseparable from the enhancement of life.”

Life Vitality Enhancement

Book:The Religion of the Future

Source: The Religion of the Future

“The power worship of the Promethean amounts to a travesty of the enhancement of life.”

Enhancement Prometheus Travesty

Book:The Religion of the Future

Source: The Religion of the Future