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The Book Club: Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler with Brad Thompson

The Book Club

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Why Is Bogrov Being Marched Down?

communism has now become devotion to the party, and it means 100 % devotion to theParty. If you if you have a dissentingopi on a policy matter, that, by definition, means that you are now going to become a counter revolutionary. And so one of the most interesting parts of the novel is when ivanov tells rubishov, we must all share the same ideas. It's not just true of leftists or marxists. It's true of conservatives. To you throw a hundred conservatives into a room, they ot, they agree with one another on 97 % of things. They will find the three percent to argue about. And this is certainly true among communists.

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