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... keep society in its existing shape only by being unable to grasp that any improvement was possible . Difficult ... keeping - up of a sham feudalism which drives the more spirited workers off the land . It explains the immobility of the ...
... keep society in its existing shape only by being unable to grasp that any improvement was possible . Difficult ... keeping - up of a sham feudalism which drives the more spirited workers off the land . It explains the immobility of the ...
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... Almost certainly the main reason why the Spanish Republic could keep up the fight for two and a half years against impossible odds was that there were no gross contrasts of wealth . The people suffered horribly THE LION AND THE UNICORN 59.
... Almost certainly the main reason why the Spanish Republic could keep up the fight for two and a half years against impossible odds was that there were no gross contrasts of wealth . The people suffered horribly THE LION AND THE UNICORN 59.
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... keep in mind how irreconcil- able these two viewpoints are . Some time within the next year a pro - Hitler reaction within the left- wing intelligentsia is likely enough . There are premonitory signs of it already . Hitler's positive ...
... keep in mind how irreconcil- able these two viewpoints are . Some time within the next year a pro - Hitler reaction within the left- wing intelligentsia is likely enough . There are premonitory signs of it already . Hitler's positive ...
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