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In Budapest these days tourists love to bait their hosts with a question: is Hungary still communist? The tourists’ problem is that they can’t see where the system ends in this effulgent greening of ours; the hosts try to explain that under communism even the the grass is communist.
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Haraszti, M. (1991). The Paradigm of the Boots. In: Tismaneanu, V., Shapiro, J. (eds) Debates on the Future of Communism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11783-3_7
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