“Joining a radical movement when one is young is very much like falling in love when one is young. The girl may turn out to be rotten, but the the experience of love is so valuable it can never be entirely undone by the ultimate disenchantment.”

—  Irving Kristol

"Memoirs of a Trotskyist", New York Times, January 23, 1979.
1970s

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