The principal function of anti-Americanism has always been, and still is, to discredit liberalism by discrediting its supreme incarnation. To travesty the United States as a repressive, unjust, racist-almost fascist-society was a way of proclaiming: look what happens when liberalism is implemented! (Jean-François Revel)

The principal function of anti-Americanism has always been, and still is, to discredit liberalism by discrediting its supreme incarnation. To travesty the United States as a repressive, unjust, racist-almost fascist-society was a way of proclaiming: look what happens when liberalism is implemented!

Jean-François Revel

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