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The tragedy of the October revolution was precisely that it could only produce its kind of ruthless, brutal, command socialism.

— Eric Hobsbawm The Age of Extremes (1992)

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Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle.

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Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production.

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Nations without a past are contradictions in terms.

In the simplest terms the question who or what caused the Second World War can be answered in two words: Adolf Hitler.

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The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

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