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“And there are many quotations from Marx and Engels to the effect that throughout human history “the superstructure” was at the service of the corresponding relations of property in a given society; that the state is “nothing else” but a tool to keep the existing relations of production intact; that the law cannot but be a weapon of class power.”
Leszek Kolakowski
— Feb 14, 2019 07:14PM
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Benjamin Britton
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“On the whole I regard Solzhenitsyn’s point of view is incorrect. Only in regard to a small number of those who died in the terror is he right... By no means do I praise such Chekists as Latsis or Peters, a position Solzhenitsyn ascribes to me in the statement by him quoted above”.
Roy Medvedev
— Feb 02, 2019 12:59PM
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“In his last years, like Trotsky, Deutscher clung to the hope that the dialect would make everything right in the end, but his analysis of the downfall of Stalinism grew quite vague.” Robert H. McNeal
— Sep 03, 2018 01:33PM
