““Petersburg socialism seems cold to the likes of our Cossacks, who would rather worship personalities than embrace ideas.”
I shared his irony. “You make them sound like Americans.””

— Michael Moorcock , book The Steel Tsar

The Steel Tsar (1981)
Source: Book 2, Chapter 4 “The Black Ships” (p. 361)

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““Petersburg socialism seems cold to the likes of our Cossacks, who would rather worship personalities than embrace ideas.”
I shared his irony. “You make them sound like Americans.””