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“The fact is that heterosexual sex for most people is in no way free of the power relations between men and women.”

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Barbara Ehrenreich is an American political figure born on August 26, 1941. She is known for her activities in labor movements, social justice, and gender equality. more

“When television families aren't gathered around the kitchen table exchanging wisecracks, they are experiencing brief but moving dilemmas, which are handily solved by the youngest child or by some cute extraterrestrial houseguest. Emerging from Family Ties or My Two Dads, we are forced to acknowledge that our own families are made up of slow-witted, emotionally crippled people who would be lucky to qualify for seats in the studio audience of JEOPARDY!”

Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

“The war with Iraq ... had to be one of the greatest non sequiturs in military history. Attacked by a gang composed largely of Islamic militants from Saudi Arabia, the United States countered by invading an unrelated country, and one of the most secular in the Middle East at that.”

War Country States United United States Middle Military Iraq East Islamic Middle East Secular Gang Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis Invading Military History

Book:Going to Extremes: Notes from a Divided Nation

Source: Going to Extremes: Notes from a Divided Nation

“War cannot be used as a means to prevent or abolish wars. ... The idea of a war to prevent war is one of its oldest, and cruelest, tricks.”

Mean Ideas War Used Tricks Abolish

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“Marx was wrong: It is not only the 'means of production' that shape societies, but the means of destruction. In our own time, the costs of war, or just war readiness, are daunting. ... The resulting cost squeeze has led to a new type of society, perhaps best terms a 'depleted' state, in which the military has drained reources from all other social functions.”

Mean War States Social Term Military Type Cost Shapes Destruction Function Productions Readiness Drained Just War Cost Of War

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“Wars produce warlike societies, which in turn make the world more dangerous for other societies, which are thus recruited into being war-prone themselves.”

World War Turns Dangerous Produce

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“war has dug itself into economic systems, where it offers a livelihood to millions ... It has lodged in our souls as a kind of religion, a quick tonic for political malaise and a bracing antidote to the moral torpor of consumerist, market-driven cultures.”

Kind War Soul Political Culture Moral Millions Economic Offers Driven Antidote Livelihood Economic Systems Malaise

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“war is, in some not yet entirely defined sense, a self-replicating pattern of behavior, possessed of a dynamism not unlike that of living things.”

War Self Behavior Patterns Defined Possessed Living Things Dynamism

Book:Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War

Source: Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War

“Warriors make wars, but it is also true that, in what has so far been an endless reproductive cycle, war makes warriors.”

War Endless Warrior Cycles

Book:Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War

Source: Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War

“Ineluctably, the insults inflicted in one war call forth new wars of retaliation, which may be waged within months of the original conflict or generations later.”

May War Generations Months Conflict Originals Insult Retaliation

Book:Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War

Source: Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War

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