“The collapse of European communist regimes will not entail disillusionment with the substance of socialism under other names until the latter is identified and linked to the catastrophic experience of the former. There is no reason to believe that this has occurred.”

— Alan Charles Kors

2010s, Socialism's Legacy (2011)

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