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  • The underlying motive of many Socialists is, I believe, a hypertrophied sense of order†what they desire, basically, istoreducetheworld tosomething resembling a chessboard.

    - George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair Orwell
      The Road to Wigan Pier, ch.11.

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