Bertrand Russell's Message to the Future

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Those sentiments are sensible, unexceptional, but ultimately banal. Russell may have been a great mathematician, but in the wider world he was rather naive. He supported unilateral nuclear disarmament by the West in the 50s which made him what Lenin called a "useful id*ot".

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