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leave them in a dapple of ambiguity rather than drag them out into any prematurely decisive light of judgment

Wilson could see that it was psychologically credulous of Marx to believe that when the proletariat took over it would simply be on its best behaviour. What was the evidence for this? Why would the worker not want what the capitalist plutocrat had? [...]

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But Rousseau's speculative theol…

I am guilty of its every stricture and I take an extraordinary delight in its considered approbation

this would enable him to trace a line from the aestheticism of Mallarmé and Villiers de l'Isle-Adam to Proust