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¹⁰ I am here reminded of the late, and by me unlamented, J. V. Stalin. For it was his practice to describe such disfavoured creatures as liberals, not as liberals, but as ‘liberals’. Presumably the quotes were inserted to express his own contemptuous distaste, rather than to suggest the ineptness of the description.

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²¹ Ibid., p. 99.

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