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In reply to the discussion: The Nazification of the Republican Party [View all]Kid Berwyn
(14,909 posts)Only members of the Inner Party got the good stuff. After his exile to the West, Alexander Solzhenitsyn was surprised at the parallels.
From The Gulag Archipelago, Part 1, Chapter 4, The Bluecaps
Macbeths self-justifications were feebleand his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb too. The imagination and the spiritual strength of Shakespeares evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses. Because they had no ideology.
Ideologythat is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination
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Thanks to ideology, the twentieth century was fated to experience evildoing on a scale calculated in the millions. This cannot be denied, nor passed over, not suppressed. How, then, do we dare insist that evildoers to not exist? And who was it that destroyed these millions? Without evildoers there would have been no Archipelago."
Source: https://www.solzhenitsyncenter.org/notable-quotations