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Leszek Kołakowski

The all-administrative university Read against the machine

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The patterns are always the same: the great socialist revolution consists, first of all, in giving us privileges, titles and power for our political opinions and in destroying the old reactionary academic values like knowledge and logical abilities…

–Leszek Kołakowski, My Correct Views of Everything, in Is God Happy, p. 130