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(n.) A scheme of equalizing the social conditions of life; specifically, a scheme which contemplates the abolition of inequalities in the possession of property, as by distributing all wealth equally to all, or by holding all wealth in common for the equal use and advantage of all.
It comes as no surprise to find [Norman] Mailer embracing [in the book ] a form of Manicheanism, pitting the forces of light and darkness against each other in a permanent stand-off, with humanity as...
Christopher Hitchens
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capitalism, communism, democracy, devil, god, good and evil, jesus, monarchy, norman mailer, omnibenevolence
Darwin did not know what a bitter satire he wrote on mankind ... when he showed that free competition, the struggle for existence, which the economists celebrate as the highest historical achievement,...
Friedrick Engels
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communism, democracy, engelism, free thinker, free thought, freedom, radical, radicalism, revolution, socialism
Though he never actually joined it, he was close to some civilian elements of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which was the most Communist (and in the rather orthodox sense) of t...
Christopher Hitchens
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communism, dflp, dogmatism, edward said, humanism, liberation, middle east, moscow, orwell, palestine
Collectivism is the "philosophy" of every cockroach and sewer rat: "If I want it, I must need it, and if I need it, I have a right to it, and if I have a right to it, it doesn't matter what I have to...
Larken Rose
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anarchy, ancap, coercion, collectivism, communism, evil, free markets, freedom, government, individual
Call no man lucky until he is dead, but there have been moment of rare satisfaction in the often random and fragmented life of the radical freelance scribbler. I have lived to see Ronald Reagan called...
Christopher Hitchens
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cold war, colonialism, communism, czechoslovakia, despotism, dictatorship, freedom, greece, journalism, liberation