To begin with, what is liberalism really, speaking in general, if not an assault (reasonable or erroneous is not the point) on the existing order of things? That’s so, isn’t it? Well then, my fact is that Russian liberalism is not an assault on the existing order of things, it is an attack on the very essence of the things we have, the things themselves, not just on their ordering, not on the Russian system but on Russia herself. My liberal has reached the stage of denying Russia itself—that is, he hates and beats his own mother. Every evidence of the wretchedness and failure of Russia prompts
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