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John F. Kennedy: Marx is proven wrong once again: for it is the closed Communist societies, not the free and open societies which carry…

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Marx is proven wrong once again: for it is the closed Communist societies, not the free and open societies which carry within themselves the seeds of internal disintegration.
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John F. Kennedy

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Kennedy argues that closed Communist societies are more prone to internal collapse than free societies.

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