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title: "Timeline photos "Intellectuals  occasionally  demur  at  the …"
date: 2020-12-06
source: facebook
type: Archer T. Ships added a new photo.
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# Timeline photos "Intellectuals  occasionally  demur  at  the …

*December 6, 2020 · Facebook*

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\"Intellectuals occasionally demur at the quantity of the slaughter, the sheer number of the \"necessary murders\"; they nearly always have accepted the principle that socialist utopias must, if necessary, be erected on violent foundations.\
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I well remember my old editor, Kingsley Martin, writing in the New Statesman, by way of a gentle rebuke to Mao Tse-tung, who had just massacred three million people, \"Was it really necessary for the Chairman to kill so many?\" This provoked a letter from his old liberal friend Leonard Woolf. Would Mr. Martin kindly inform the readers, he asked, \"the maximum number of deaths he would have deemed appropriate?\"\"\
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[https://www.fortfreedom.org/h11.htm](https://www.fortfreedom.org/h11.htm){target="_blank"}
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