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Conservatism is alien to the very nature of capitalism. (p. 229)
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— Whittaker Chambers Odyssey of a Friend (1969)

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Lenin was a Great Russian peasant et rien de plus, mais r-r-rien de plus. Oh yes, he was a dialectician, the only true one among them. But most of all he was a Russian and that is to be a peasant.

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