How can one condemn the Soviet Union, since the failure of the Bolshevik enterprise would be the failure of Marxism and therefore of history itself? This is an admirable piece of philosophical double-think, typical of our latter-day intelligentsia. They start with the idea of the recognition of man by man; they then proceed to the Revolution; they attribute to the proletariat, and to it alone, the capacity to bring about the Revolution; they subscribe implicitly to the claim of the Communist Party to be the sole representative of the proletariat; and when, finally, they observe with some
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