“Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.”

—  Bernard Crick

Source: In Defence Of Politics (Second Edition) – 1981, Chapter 6, A Defence of Politics Against False Friends, p. 115.

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British political theorist and democratic socialist 1929–2008

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