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the condition of self-sufficiency, especially economic, as applied to a nation; a national policy of economic independence

314

The shift is born of despair, as any prospects for international revolution recede. But if it is utopian to hope that international support is around the corner, how much more so is it to wager on the impossible – autarchic socialism?

—p.314 Epilogue: After October (305) by China Miéville
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The shift is born of despair, as any prospects for international revolution recede. But if it is utopian to hope that international support is around the corner, how much more so is it to wager on the impossible – autarchic socialism?

—p.314 Epilogue: After October (305) by China Miéville
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6 years, 6 months ago

(adjective) extremely loud

315

Party activists are hounded in great numbers, forced to betray others, to confess to preposterous crimes with stentorian declarations

—p.315 Epilogue: After October (305) by China Miéville
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6 years, 6 months ago

Party activists are hounded in great numbers, forced to betray others, to confess to preposterous crimes with stentorian declarations

—p.315 Epilogue: After October (305) by China Miéville
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6 years, 6 months ago

(noun) an ultimate end (from Greek)

315

did October lead inexorably to Stalin? It is an old question, but one still very much alive. Is the gulag the telos of 1917?

—p.315 Epilogue: After October (305) by China Miéville
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6 years, 6 months ago

did October lead inexorably to Stalin? It is an old question, but one still very much alive. Is the gulag the telos of 1917?

—p.315 Epilogue: After October (305) by China Miéville
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6 years, 6 months ago

(adjective) deadly or pernicious in influence / (adjective) foreboding or threatening evil

316

The party’s shift after Lenin’s death, from that plaintive, embattled sense that there had been little alternative but to strive in imperfect conditions, to the later bad hope of Socialism in One Country, is a baleful result of recasting necessity as virtue.

—p.316 Epilogue: After October (305) by China Miéville
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6 years, 6 months ago

The party’s shift after Lenin’s death, from that plaintive, embattled sense that there had been little alternative but to strive in imperfect conditions, to the later bad hope of Socialism in One Country, is a baleful result of recasting necessity as virtue.

—p.316 Epilogue: After October (305) by China Miéville
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6 years, 6 months ago

(verb) to expose to shame or blame by means of falsehood and misrepresentation / (verb) violate betray

316

And in the traducing and misrepresentation of opponents

—p.316 Epilogue: After October (305) by China Miéville
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6 years, 6 months ago

And in the traducing and misrepresentation of opponents

—p.316 Epilogue: After October (305) by China Miéville
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6 years, 6 months ago

relating to the writing of the lives of saints; (derogatory) adulatory writing about another person

317

Those who count themselves on the side of the revolution must engage with these failures and crimes. To do otherwise is to fall into apologia, special pleading, hagiography – and to run the risk of repeating such mistakes.

—p.317 Epilogue: After October (305) by China Miéville
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6 years, 6 months ago

Those who count themselves on the side of the revolution must engage with these failures and crimes. To do otherwise is to fall into apologia, special pleading, hagiography – and to run the risk of repeating such mistakes.

—p.317 Epilogue: After October (305) by China Miéville
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6 years, 6 months ago

(adj) hostile, obstructive

319

What could be more inimical to any trace of teleology than those who take account of the sidings of history?

—p.319 Epilogue: After October (305) by China Miéville
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6 years, 6 months ago

What could be more inimical to any trace of teleology than those who take account of the sidings of history?

—p.319 Epilogue: After October (305) by China Miéville
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6 years, 6 months ago