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Recognition of the need for political change has been a commonplace of thinkers of every period and every shade of opinion. ‘A state without the means of some change’, said Burke in a famous phrase, ‘is without the means of its own conservation.’1 In 1853, Marx wrote trenchantly on the Eastern question:
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Carr, E.H. (2016). Peaceful Change. In: Cox, M. (eds) The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95076-8_13
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