Topics ยป Communism and Socialism
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One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
In the end we beat them with Levi 501 jeans. Seventy-two years of Communist indoctrination and propaganda was drowned out by a three-ounce Sony Walkman. A huge totalitarian system has been brought to its knees because nobody wants to wear Bulgarian shoes. Now they're lunch, and we're number one on the planet.
The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.