The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true. ✨ Hannah Ar…

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The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true. ✨ Hannah Arendt (1972). Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true. ✨ Hannah Arendt (1972). Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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