Marxism has placed its stake on force – which Marx called the midwife of history. And though the midwife perpetually delivers monsters, Marxists never tire of promising that the next child will be a splendid one.
Soviet dissident Andrei Amalrik,
in 1977.
You were there in a place where you didn’t belong, where things were glimpsed for which you would have to pay and where things went unglimpsed for which you would also have to pay, a place where they didn’t play with the mystery but killed you straight off for trespassing,