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"I wish your revolt well, my friend," said Bakhtin, "but beware that you don't end up merely repeating the same old story. The state abhors only one thing in the end, and that's the sound of laughter. Violence it can understand."

— Terry Eagleton

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Excerpted from a fictional conversation between Mikhail Bakhtin and James Connolly.

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