“But where communism is really unique is in its ability to convince reasonably intelligent people that its tyranny is somehow different, and that anyone silly enough to question the suppression of human and political rights in a communist state is some kind of a right-wing lunatic.”

Source: The Intellectual Student’s Guide to Survival (1968), pp. 78-79

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