/lit/ - Literature

Kolakowski because he wasn't a midwit.

He also wrote this:

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And this:

>"The kind of conservative anthropological pessimism which led to the astonishing belief that a progressive income tax was an inhuman abomination is just as suspect as the kind of historical optimism on which the Gulag Archipelago was based."

And this:

>"We cannot get rid of the spectre [of communism] by saying it was just 'human stupidity' or 'human corruptibility'. The spectre is stronger than the spells we cast on it. It might come back to life."

Yeah, about that...

https://youtu.be/3v5FW84m69w?t=511