Maxwell Anderson - The difference between the Socialists and the Co

The difference between the Socialists and the Communists is that … the Communists mean it.

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Maxwell Anderson, 1888-1959, Playwright, Quoted in Irving Howe, Maxwell Anderson, 1952

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