Why Does Socialist Ideology Persist?

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Fri. 10/05/21 19:27 EDT
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[/url]It’s a paraphrase of Victor Hugo:

On résiste à l’invasion des armées; on ne résiste pas à l’invasion des idées.

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On résiste à l’invasion des armées; on ne résiste pas à l’invasion des idées.

• Literal translations:

1. One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.
2. One withstands the invasion of armies; one does not withstand the invasion of ideas.[list][*]Histoire d’un Crime (The History of a Crime) [written 1852, published 1877], Conclusion, ch. X. Trans. T.H. Joyce and Arthur Locker [4][/list]

• Alternative translations and paraphrased variants:[list][]One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.[]No one can resist an idea whose time has come.[]Nothing is stronger than an idea whose time has come.[]Armies cannot stop an idea whose time has come.[]No army can stop an idea whose time has come.[]Nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come.[*]There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.[/list]