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Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
5.0
"The old disease, though Rubashov. Revolutionaries should not think through other people’s minds.
Or, perhaps they should? Or even ought to?
How can one change the world if one identifies oneself with everybody?
How else can one change it?
He who understands and forgives -- where would he find a motive to act?
Where would he not?
They will shoot me, though Rubashov. My motives will be of no interest to them."
Koestler was himself a former communist. And even if this book is anti-communist, it isn't anti-communist in the facile, jingoistic way of a lot of western literature. Koestler hates Stalin but is drawn all the same by the vision of the revolutionaries.
Or, perhaps they should? Or even ought to?
How can one change the world if one identifies oneself with everybody?
How else can one change it?
He who understands and forgives -- where would he find a motive to act?
Where would he not?
They will shoot me, though Rubashov. My motives will be of no interest to them."
Koestler was himself a former communist. And even if this book is anti-communist, it isn't anti-communist in the facile, jingoistic way of a lot of western literature. Koestler hates Stalin but is drawn all the same by the vision of the revolutionaries.