"Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals."
"The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all of humanity, characteristics which are natural to him as a Jew."
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Source: Edmund Wilson, Edward J.N. Wilson (1983). “The Forties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period”
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