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Herbert Read

It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.

Herbert Read

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Herbert Read means that when a society adopts a new system like socialism, it needs a strong, shared belief or guiding principle to maintain that change. Without this, the society will slowly return to its previous values and ways of life.

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