The Spanish war and other events in 1936-7 turned the scale and thereafter I knew where I stood. Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism, as I understand it. It seems to me nonsense, in a period like our own, to think that one can avoid writing of such subjects.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The Spanish war and other events in 1936-7 turned the scale and thereafter I knew where I stood. Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism, as I understand it. It seems to me nonsense, in a period like our own, to think that one can avoid writing of such subjects." in the context of "George Orwell in "Why I Write", Gangrel (Summer 1946). [[File:BayardRustinAug1963-LibraryOfCongress crop.jpg|thumb|Social democracy adopts a flexible approach to institutional arrangements and social reforms; it has no unalterable blueprint to impose on society...Social democracy is more a method of social change than a definition of what society should look like.
• Bayard Rustin]]" to mean that wisdom is timeless.