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Quotation of the Day…

… is from page 152 of the late Richard Pipes’s excellent 2001 book, Communism: A History:

The nationalization of productive resources, far from liberating men from enslavement by things, as Marx and Engels had envisioned, converts them into slaves of their rulers and, because of endemic shortages, makes them more materialistic than ever.

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