Unlike the word 'communist', which always signified a programme, the word 'socialist' was primarily analytical and critical. (Eric Hobsbawm)

Unlike the word 'communist', which always signified a programme, the word 'socialist' was primarily analytical and critical.

Eric Hobsbawm

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