And who among you can say you’ve ever read the later works of Lenin? That you know all of Marx? There’s early Marx…and Marx at the end of his life…What people today disparage as socialism has no relation to the socialist idea. The Idea is not to blame. [His coughing once again makes it difficult to understand him.] The people have lost their history…They’ve been left without faith…No matter what you ask them, they answer with blank stares. The bosses have learned how to cross themselves and balance candles in their right hands like they’re glasses of vodka. They brought back the moth-eaten
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