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The potential of radical evil from the pursuit of progress

…the commonplace distinction between utopianism and meliorism is less than fundamental The title of this post is suggested by the final sentence of John Gray’s review in the Times Literary Supplement of Vladimir Tismaneanu’s recent book, The Devil in History: Communism, Fascism, and some lessons of the twentieth century (UCalifornia Press).