"This way that petty-bourgeois minds confuse their subjective assessments with the objective situation goes so far that the majority of notions used in conversations about social problems have currently lost their scientific character to become simple expressions of estimation. . p. 37"
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Alexander Zinoviev
Aleksandr Zinovyev (29 September 1922 β 10 May 2006) was a Russian philosopher, sociologist and writer
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