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All human beings, especially those with good looks or some other advantage over their fellows, need strong opposition when young, that in itself. If it isn't forthcoming, their characters suffer. They become egotistical, impossible to deflect from any course of action they may have set themselves....

'Where shall we date its death?' he was saying in a not very interrogative tone. 'The year 2000? 2020? -- before that surely. It doesn't affect the point: as an active force, as something to be reckoned with, Marxism has ceased to exist. Its followers have died or fallen into cynicism or impotence.

In a sense I can never like any Russian, but your position is quite different: I wouldn't try to change it even if I could. Anything that helps make life less intolerable is to be seized on. These days.