I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure.
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Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.
When you're failing, there's a very powerful incentive to put ideology aside and just do what seems to work.
I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy; not being able to look at the other person down the street.
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
I still think like a Marxist in many ways.
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
Failure is a word that I simply don't accept.
Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way.
Well, the idea is that failure is an inevitable partner on the road to success and, if you're not willing to confront failure, you can never find out how good you are.
Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.
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