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Trotsky: A Biography (Robert Service)

The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)

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Transcendence Is a More Powerful Driver Than Status Seeking

Trotsky believed in the achievableity of a universal order which would totally liberate the human spirit. Transcendence is a far more powerful driver than status seeking, and it is that which explains the lure of communism through the past century. No doubt the modern western left offers increases in status, but that is not its main attraction. Such emancipation is a type of seeking after transcendence, even if it has more immediate benefits for some.

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