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“You’d like Socialism, Pete,” Mr. Propter continued. “But Socialism seems to be fatally committed to centralization and standardized urban mass production all round. Besides, I see too many occasions for bullying there—too many opportunities for bossy people to display their bossiness, for sluggish people to sit back and be slaves.”
—Aldous Huxley
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan (1939)
— Politics — Commonplaces #221 — Jan/Feb 2025 —
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