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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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obverse

whose political commitments were interpreted by members of the underground as being the obverse of ‘the Soviet’

—p.69 Against Privatized Poetry (65) by Kirill Medvedev
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philologist

A new avant-garde also emerged from among philology students in Leningrad, who looked to the poetry of the pre- and post-revolutionary experimentalists

—p.67 Against Privatized Poetry (65) by Kirill Medvedev
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Marxism teaches conscious participation

  1. Idea that Marxism taught (teaches) conscious participation—well-informed, objective scientific consciousness and moral consciousness spurring on, nurturing the will—in history as it unfolds. Man no longer the object of history but the subject. Making history. Is a different attitude possible, wi…
—p.59 Mexican Notebooks (31) by Victor Serge
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socialism must renounce all ideas of dictatorship

My theses: [...] That the economic structure of the world has changed, traditional capitalism giving way to a planned economy, thus with a collectivist bent, which could be that of monopolies, of totalitarian parties—or of democracies of a new type, if they succeeded in coming into being (strong ob…

—p.51 Mexican Notebooks (31) by Victor Serge