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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 ...
Page 64
... keep them from open rebellion . If we are con- quered , our job will probably be to manu- facture weapons for Hitler's forthcoming wars with Russia and America . The Nazis aim , in effect , at setting up a kind of caste system , with ...
... keep them from open rebellion . If we are con- quered , our job will probably be to manu- facture weapons for Hitler's forthcoming wars with Russia and America . The Nazis aim , in effect , at setting up a kind of caste system , with ...
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... 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 , but they all suffered alike . When the private soldier had not a cigarette , the ...
... 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 , but they all suffered alike . When the private soldier had not a cigarette , the ...
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