“Socialism comes to power, paradoxically, when all compulsive energy to go beyond oneself, all social energies of rupture, all alternative cultural energies have more or less been exhausted — and it carries the sigmas of this exhaustion, and profits by it. If it sets itself up without resistance, it's not so much that it has won over the Right, it's because the entire space before it has been emptied by the reflux of vital forces.”
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