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... believed , during the time he was writing this book , that the Home Guard should and could be- come a revolutionary popular army . This belief was eccentric , but he wrote notes for lectures on guerrilla warfare and on the need for ...
... believed , during the time he was writing this book , that the Home Guard should and could be- come a revolutionary popular army . This belief was eccentric , but he wrote notes for lectures on guerrilla warfare and on the need for ...
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... believed , no mere platitude or rhetoric this , in the innate ' decency ' ( the word he is fond of ) of ordinary people . True values are not to be created nor old values ' transfigured ' by the revolution , or in a new revolu- tionary ...
... believed , no mere platitude or rhetoric this , in the innate ' decency ' ( the word he is fond of ) of ordinary people . True values are not to be created nor old values ' transfigured ' by the revolution , or in a new revolu- tionary ...
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... believed more ( though it can be a matter of relative emphasis rather than absolute dichotomy ) in the possibility and importance of freely held values than in the systematic theories of continental socialism and Marxism , which stress ...
... believed more ( though it can be a matter of relative emphasis rather than absolute dichotomy ) in the possibility and importance of freely held values than in the systematic theories of continental socialism and Marxism , which stress ...
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