If every one of those good words-liberty, equality, fraternity, democracy, human rights-has been called "bourgeois", what on earth does that leave for us? (Fang Lizhi)

If every one of those good words-liberty, equality, fraternity, democracy, human rights-has been called "bourgeois", what on earth does that leave for us?

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