a revolutionary press
[...] A press or a book is not true because it is revolutionary. It has a chance of being revolutionary only if it tries to tell the truth. [...]
[...] A press or a book is not true because it is revolutionary. It has a chance of being revolutionary only if it tries to tell the truth. [...]
there is room for nothing in Stalinist culture except for edifying sermons, colorless life, and the catechism of propaganda
there is room for nothing in Stalinist culture except for edifying sermons, colorless life, and the catechism of propaganda
[...] there is no possible evolution in a totalitarian society. Terror does not evolve except toward a worse terror, the scaffold does not become any more liberal, the gallows are not tolerant. Nowhere in the world has there been a party or a man with absolute power who did not use it absolutely.
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