“Who is secure in all his basic needs? Who has work, spiritual care, medical care, housing, food, occasional entertainment, free clothing, free burial, free everything? The answer might be nuns and monks, but the standard reply is 'prisoners'.”
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Leftism Revisited: from de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot
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