The radicals want something of the quality of the hot moments of social life-the periods of accelerated collective mobilization-to pass into the cold moments-the ordinary experience of institutionalized social existence. (Roberto Mangabeira Unger)

The radicals want something of the quality of the hot moments of social life-the periods of accelerated collective mobilization-to pass into the cold moments-the ordinary experience of institutionalized social existence.

Roberto Mangabeira Unger

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