In religion, I do not see the mystery of the Incarnation, but the mystery of the social order. It associates heaven an idea of equality that keeps rich men from being massacred by the poor ... Society is impossible without inequality; inequality intolerable without a code of morality, and a code of morality unacceptable without religion.
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In becoming forcibly and essentially aware of my mortality, and of what I wished and wanted for my life, however short it might be, priorities and omissions became strongly etched in a merciless light, and what I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I *ever* been afraid? To question or to speak as I believed could have meant pain, or death. But we all hurt in so many different ways, all the time, and pain will either change, or end. Death, on the other hand, is the final silence. And that might be coming quickly, now, without regard for whether I had ever spoken what needed to be said, or had only betrayed myself into small silences, while I planned someday to speak, or waited for someone else's words. And I began to recognize a source of power within myself that comes from the knowledge that while it is most desirable not to be afraid, learning to put fear into a perspective gave me great strength.
I was going to die, if not sooner then later, whether or not I had ever spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those truths for which I am still seeking, I had ever made contact with other women while we examined the words to fit a world in which we all believed, bridging our differences. And it was the concern and caring of all those women which gave me strength and enabled me to scrutinize the essentials of my living.
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The first phase of financial liberalization in Turkey did not produce an outcome that has been highlighted as a defining feature of financialization (cf. Lapavitsas 2009, 2011). That is to say, commercial banks have not become more distant from industrial and commercial capital, notwithstanding the objectives reflected in the wording of World Bank’s SALs and Decree no.70 to the contrary. The Turkish experience does not provide evidence for the detachment and/or the severance of financial from productive capital (cf. Wood 2007). Indeed, it emerges as a distinct modality of financialization that would not entail such a detachment, but rather the blurring of frontiers between financial and non-financial activities within the non-financial corporations too (cf. Serfati 2011; Türel 2009: 154), as the evolving process of financial liberalization revealed in its successive phases.
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