“Let the dead bury the dead? But, the dead can bury no one.”
Alan Charles Kors (1943) American academic
2010s, Socialism's Legacy (2011)
“Let the apologists for communists acknowledge the dead, bury the dead, and atone for the dead. Otherwise, let them be forgiven only when they have put out their eyes and wandered blind, away from Thebes.”
2010s, Socialism's Legacy (2011)
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