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... past ten years , as purely negative creatures , mere anti - Blimps , was a by - product of ruling - class stupidity . Society could not use them , and they had not got it in them to see that devotion to one's country implies ' for ...
... past ten years , as purely negative creatures , mere anti - Blimps , was a by - product of ruling - class stupidity . Society could not use them , and they had not got it in them to see that devotion to one's country implies ' for ...
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... past , will be its bitter enemies . Inevitably they will de- nounce it as ' Fascism ' . Already it is customary among the more soft - boiled intellectuals of the Left to declare that if we fight against the Nazis we shall ' go Nazi ...
... past , will be its bitter enemies . Inevitably they will de- nounce it as ' Fascism ' . Already it is customary among the more soft - boiled intellectuals of the Left to declare that if we fight against the Nazis we shall ' go Nazi ...
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... past . No real revolutionary has ever been an interna- tionalist . During the past twenty years the negative , fainéant outlook which has been fashionable among English left - wingers , the sniggering of the intellectuals at patriotism ...
... past . No real revolutionary has ever been an interna- tionalist . During the past twenty years the negative , fainéant outlook which has been fashionable among English left - wingers , the sniggering of the intellectuals at patriotism ...
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