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Hannah Arendt

“That Hegelian dialectics should provide a wonderful instrument for always being right, because they permit the interpretations of all defeats as the beginning of victory, is obvious. One of the most beautiful examples of this kind of sophistry occurred after 1933 when the German Communists for nearly two years refused to recognize that Hitler's victory had been a defeat for the German Communist Party.”

Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
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The Origins of Totalitarianism The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
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