Word: enragedly
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Kolakowski has been a Communist since he was 18, won scholastic fame for the fervor of his pro-Stalinist views. But even before the Soviet 20th Party Congress, Kolakowski had established himself as the leader of the group of passionate dissenters now known as the enragés ("the enraged ones"). Last month, in Warsaw's Nowa Kultura, Kolakowski published a four-part critique that flays the Soviet order, and inferentially Wladyslaw Gomulka, with the cold-steel precision of a surgical scalpel...
...been said before, often with less obscurantism. But in today's Poland it is new, fresh and almost suicidal in its audacity. Even in trying to answer him, Gomulka's Polityka fell into admission of the threat he poses to the Communist hierarchy: "Kolakowski and the enragés are not able to present any program of a 'moral' policy which would not lead at once to a national catastrophe and to the annihilation of Socialism." Kolakowski's supporters heard that he will be barred immediately from writing for Nowa Kultura, may even face...
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