The Godfather of American Liberalism*

H. G. Wells: novelist, historian, authoritarian, anticapitalist, eugenicist, and advisor to presidents

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Despite Stalin’s impermeability, Wells concluded that “I have never met a man more candid, fair and honest, and it is to these qualities and to nothing occult and sinister, that he owes his tremendous undisputed ascendancy in Russia. . . . No one is afraid of him and everyone trusts him.”**

Um senhor artigo do City Journal.

* Obs.: Nos EEUUAA, liberal = esquerdista.

** Obs. 2: O forte dele era ficção, mesmo.