"What struck me most about the Russian Communists, even in such really exceptional personalities as Lenin and Trotsky, was their utter incapacity to be fair in discussing opinions that conflicted with their own. The adversary, simply for daring to contradict, at once became a traitor, an opportunist, a hireling. An adversary in good faith is inconceivable to the Russian Communists. What an aberration of conscience this is, for so-called materialists and rationalists absolutely in their polemics to uphold the primacy of morals over intelligence! To find a comparable infatuation one has to go back to the Inquisition."
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From Richard Crossman (ed.) The God That Failed (1949, 1963 reprint). New York, NY: Harper & Row. p. 108.
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Ignazio Silone
1900 – 1978
italienischer Schriftsteller
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