The disillusion with socialism and other forms of collectivism, which became the dominant spirit of the 1980s, was only one aspect of a much wider loss of faith in the state as an agency of benevolence. The state was, up to to the 1980s, the great gainer of the twentieth century; and the central failure.
–Paul Johnson in his book, Modern Times
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