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Francis Spufford

“Seen from that future time, when every commodity the human mind could imagine would flow from the industrial horn of plenty in dizzy abundance, this would seem a scanty, shoddy, cramped moment indeed, choked with shadows, redeemed only by what it caused to be created.

Seen from plenty, now would be hard to imagine. It would seem not quite real, an absurd time when, for no apparent reason, human beings went without things easily within the power of humanity to supply and lives did not flower as it was obvious they could.”

Francis Spufford, Red Plenty: Inside the Fifties’ Soviet Dream
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Red Plenty: Inside the Fifties’ Soviet Dream Red Plenty: Inside the Fifties’ Soviet Dream by Francis Spufford
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