Paul A. Baran

"Whatever market for manufactured goods emerged in colonial and dependent countries did not become the "eternal market" of these countries. Thrown wide open by colonization and by unequal treaties, it …"

"But when reason and the study of history began revealing the irrationality, the limitations, and the merely transitory nature of the capitalist order, bourgeois ideology as a whole and with it bourgeo…"

"As Hegel well knew, the ascent of reason has never followed a straight line."

"The process of writing is a process of learning; and much has become clearer to me in the attempt to transform my original rough notes into what I hope is an intelligible presentation."

"Much if not all we know about the complex mechanism responsible for the development of productive forces, and for the rise and decay of social organizations, is the result of the analytical work under…"

"In fact, all the additional knowledge gained by an irrationally constituted society may but enlarge and enhance the powers of death and destruction."

"If society has a technical need, that helps science forward more than ten universities."

"The desire to tell the truth is only one condition for being an intellectual. The other is courage, readiness to carry on rational inquiry to wherever it may lead … to withstand … comfortable and lucr…"