Can’t you approach the young worker and tell him that the w… - Isaac Deutscher

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Can’t you approach the young worker and tell him that the way to live is to work for life and not for death? Is it beneath American scholars to try to do that?... Your only salvation is in carrying the idea of socialism to the working class and coming back to storm—to storm, yes, to storm—the bastions of capitalism.

Isaac Deutscher

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About Isaac Deutscher

Isaac Deutscher (3 April 1907 – 19 August 1967) was a Polish-born Marxist writer, journalist and political activist who moved to the United Kingdom at the outbreak of World War II. He is best remembered as a biographer of Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin and as a commentator on Soviet and Jewish affairs.

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Alternative Names: Izaak Deutscher • Deutscher, Isaac, 1907-1967 • Исаа́к До́йчер

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