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most people want a quiet life

I think this question of involvement in politics is a very interesting one. I always believed, until really quite recently, probably till about twenty years ago, that in an ideal society everybody would take part in politics, that it was natural for people to wish to have some control over their li…

—p.108 Lives on the Left: A Group Portrait The Personal and the Political (105) missing author
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technical and scientific personnel in a socialist society

Yes, I think it would have happened and it was already happening even before 1968, as a reaction against the egalitarian system introduced in 1955. Under the latter, everybody in Czechoslovakia was within a narrow range of salaries. This means that there were no material rewards for responsible job…

—p.49 The Struggle for Socialism in Czechoslovakia (29) missing author
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by replacing revolutionary ideals

It is interesting to note that popular dissatisfaction with the economic situation in Czechoslovakia was greater in the more recent period, when living standards were much higher, than in the period immediately after the war when the masses believed that austerity was in the service of revolutionar…

—p.45 The Struggle for Socialism in Czechoslovakia (29) missing author
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protean

Karl Korsch (1886–1961) came up through the protean socialist culture of pre-First World War Germany and Europe

—p.14 The Winding Paths of Capital (5) missing author
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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 The Winding Paths of Capital (5) missing author