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The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism by Bertrand Russell

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get in touch with the peasants, since they form about 85 per cent,

“went to Russia a Communist; but contact with those who have no doubts has intensified a thousandfold my own doubts, not as to Communism in itself, but as to the wisdom of holding a creed so firmly that for its sake men are willing to inflict widespread misery.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism

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“Every rational being must be tempted to think that the peculiar immediacy and inviolability of self-awareness guarantee its content.”
― Roger Scruton, Kant: A Very Short Introduction

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“Industrial conscription is, of course, rigidly enforced. Every man and woman has to work, and slacking is severely punished, by prison or a penal settlement.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism

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“There is practically no social life, partly because of the food shortage, partly because, when anybody is arrested, the police are apt to arrest everybody whom they find in his company, or who comes to visit him.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism

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“If Russia were governed democratically, according to the will of the majority, the inhabitants of Moscow and Petrograd would die of starvation. As it is, Moscow and Petrograd just manage to live, by having the whole civil and military power of the State devoted to their needs.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism

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