
The Impact of Marx on the Nineteenth Century
Isaiah Berlin
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I Can't Afford to Look Truth in the Face
A class which s to speak, whose interest is bound up with some situation which is fundamentally unsatisfactory, is bound to disguise this fact. And can deceive both itself and others by all kinds of myths and inventions which cloud the truth from becloud the truth because tiy can't quite dare to look at it. Let me try and give you three metaphors which i've thought of in order to make this present to your imaginations. The metaphota is that of a psychiatrist and his patient. If i gom, if i am on the upward moving stairs, my vision is totally different from yours who are on downward moving stairs. People who move downwards have a different vista before them from
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