Utopian Hope and Apocalyptic Religion
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Contributor(s): Professor John Gray | Where does the utopian impulse in politics originate, and does it have a future? John Gray argues that though they often claimed to be rooted in a scientific analysis of history and society the revolutionary political movements of the past.
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