“The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.”

— Martin Buber

As quoted in Encounter with Martin Buber (1972) by Aubrey Hodes, p. 135

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German Jewish Existentialist philosopher and theologian 1878–1965

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