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What perished in the Soviet Union was Marxist only in the sense that the Inquisition was Christian

Terry Eagleton

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Terence Francis Eagleton FBA (born February 22, 1943) is a British literary theorist, critics and philosopher. Eagleton is a Distinguished Professor of English Literature at Lancaster University, and as a former Visiting Professor at the National University of Ireland.

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Language always pre-exists us: it is always already 'in place', waiting to assign us our places within it.

Writing seems to rob me of my being: it is a second hand mode of communication, a pallid, mechanical transcript of speech, and so always at one remove from my consciousness.

All desire springs from a lack, which it strives continually to fill.

What perished in the Soviet Union was Marxist only in the sense that the Inquisition was Christian - Terry Eagleton

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