"When you read about the end of the Soviet Union, it's always about the "death of socialism." They never say "the death of democracy." But it makes about the same sense."
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"[Ronald] Reagan bitterly hated unions and wanted them destroyed. This began with the air controllers' strike and went on from there."
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"That the existence of the Soviet Union has an international revolutionary significance is a commonplace equally recognized by friends and foes."
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"To me, the real 'state of the union' is found in how Americans react to current events."
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"In the creation of the federal government, the states exercised the highest act of sovereignty, and they may, if they please, repeat the proof of their sovereignty, by its annihilation. But the union possesses no innate sovereignty, like the states; it was not self-constitute d; it is conventional, and of course subordinate to the sovereignties by which it was formed."
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"The force of union conquers all."
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"What Franklin Roosevelt did, which really offended them, was he strengthened the labor unions - made it possible for them to strike. The oligarchs were furious because the working class was not supposed to have any power at all."
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"Of course, socialism is just evil now. It's completely discredited supposedly by the collapse of the Soviet Union, but I can't help noticing that my grandchildren are heavily in hock to Communist China now which is evidently a whole lot better at business than we are."
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