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The Three Sources and Three Constituent Parts of Marxism (March 1913)
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“My own self-deception at least promised some kind of pleasure. Theirs offered nothing but terror and guilt.”
Source: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 14 (p. 375)
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