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The ex-communist is the problem child of contemporary politics.

— Isaac Deutscher

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To justify or condone Israel's wars against the Arabs is to render Israel a very bad service indeed and to harm its own long-term interest. Israel's security, let me repeat, was not enhanced by the wars of 1956 and 1967; it was undermined and compromised by them.

[Stalin] had found Russia working with wooden ploughs and leaving it equipped with atomic piles.

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Three-fourths of the Italian economy, industrial and agricultural, is in the hands of the state.

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Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

Theodor Adorno The Authoritarian Personality (1950)

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