'Pyrrhic victory' in Does Capitalism Have a Future? | Bookmarker

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a victory that inflicts such a devastating toll on the victor that it is tantamount to defeat

The dissident New Left had its Pyrrhic victory in the extinction of communism.

—p.168 Getting Real (163) by Craig J. Calhoun, Georgi Derluguian, Immanuel Wallerstein, Michael Mann, Randall Collins

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