Furthermore, two contrasts can be observed. ... I believe that Fassbinder uses contradiction and contrast to demonstrate in a direct manner how unfounded our prejudices are, how little society thinks about issues before it forms an opinion on them and how even the victims can find themselves becoming perpetrators if social pressure on them is great enough. ... And so we see that social ostracism changes to accommodating exploitation' (Elsaesser, 1996: 281). ... On the other hand, the Brechtian mechanism counteracts this, providing distance, time to think and to realise that it is not ...

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This second power can be thought of quantitatively, as an amount of exchangeability or command over other commodities. ... This is, I think, what we mean by "money." ... There is no reason to think of the commodity form emerging historically before the money form. ... Because money comes to stand in opposition to particular commodities, we can conceive of a difference between value and price. ... In such circumstances, if we maintain the concept of value separate from price, we would say that the exchange was unequal in terms of the values changing hands. ...

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The meaning and purpose of society, what we ought to do, and what we hope to accomplish " all these are fundamentally affected by what we think is the true' behavior of civilized people. Yet even within the most popular views of civil society, there are differences aplenty. ... In so-called civil societies consisting of natural laws, however, we can easily forget that democratic principles are often embraced to effectively function as a community. ... We know that the will of the people' is synonymous with majority, but even within majorities Tocqueville recognized the di...

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