The word ‘Communist’ is like the word ‘bastard.’ It started out as a specific label for a definite thing, but it’s grown into a term of general abuse. If I get into a fight with a taxi driver and he calls me a bastard, he doesn’t mean I’m illegitimate. He doesn’t know whether I am or not. He just means he thoroughly disapproves of me. … Mrs. Sadler, like the taxi driver, hasn’t got a very large vocabulary, so she has to get her epithets from the ready-to-wear department.

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