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• Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is…
• Impotence therefore faces both those who believe in what amounts to a pure, stateless, market capitalism, a sort of international bourgeois anarchism,…
• The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could…
• There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the…
• Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production.
• It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like…
• The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.
• It is one of the ironies of this strange century that the most lasting results of the October revolution, whose object was…

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