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it would never admit discontinuity

[...] Lenin [...] never presented basic changes and new departures as merely continuations and improvements of previous trends. For example, when he announced the New Economic Policy, he never for one moment said that this was a ‘development’ or ‘completion’ of War Communism. He stated quite frankl…

—p.13 Lives on the Left: A Group Portrait The Winding Paths of Capital (5) missing author
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there is teleology in all human labour

[...] The concept of labour is the hinge of my analysis. For labour is not biologically determined. If a lion attacks an antelope, its behaviour is determined by biological need and by that alone. But if primitive man is confronted with a heap of stones, he must choose between them, by judging whic…

—p.3 Life and Work (3) by György Lukács
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fideist

the youthful fideist he had been

—p.xiv Not Yet, No Longer, Not Yet: An Introduction (xi) by Francis Mulhern
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a kind of portraiture, or rather self-portraiture

The great advantages of the interview are its manoeuvrability and range. Beginning, usually, in a conversation and resulting in a printed representation of that, its production process is more complex than this suggests, combining the greater spontaneity and pace of speech with the greater scope an…

—p.xii Not Yet, No Longer, Not Yet: An Introduction (xi) by Francis Mulhern
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