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“For we may consider it proven by the whole course of history that society, torn as it is by inner contradictions, conclusively reveals in a revolution not only its anatomy, but also its “soul.”
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“That so many revolutionary efforts have been frustrated or have proved abortive does not invalidate the premise on which they acted. Men engaged in combat do not take defeat for granted before the battle is joined — it is in the actual fighting that the outcome of the struggle is decided.”
― The Unfinished Revolution: Russia 1917-67
― The Unfinished Revolution: Russia 1917-67
“The historian who labours to reduce the mountain of the revolution to a few contingencies, stands as helpless before it as once stood the political leaders who sought to prevent its rise.”
― The Unfinished Revolution: Russia 1917-67
― The Unfinished Revolution: Russia 1917-67
Political Philosophy and Ethics
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Study and discussion of the important questions of ethical and political philosophy from Confucius and Socrates to the present. Rules (see also the ...more
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