Carolina QuotesIf we could somehow take out the ideology, change the minds of those who control the state, and convert them into paleo-conservatives, the state apparatus itself would be neutral. What really animates its drive toward a totalitarian conquest and reconfiguration of society and the human mind itself comes from the ideology that the masters of the managerial state have adopted, a force that is entirely extraneous and largely accidental to the structure by which they exercise power.
Samuel T. Francis Connected to the Carolinas
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"Power Trip", The Occidental Quarterly, Vol. 3, No. 2. Summer 2003
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- 2003
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“If we could somehow take out the ideology, change the minds …” Samuel T. Francis. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-25EED7F12A. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/25eed7f12a
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